Re: Mark Mitchell as C++ co-maintainer

[Alex Buell <alex dot buell at tahallah dot demon dot co dot uk>]

On Thu, 15 Apr 1999, Jeffrey A Law wrote:

> In hindsight, the improvements to the C++ compiler have been the
> single most important reason people have converted from gcc2 to egcs.  
> Three cheers for the g++ team! :-)

My employers standardises on gcc 2.8.1. I've been trying to persuade them
to move to egcs-1.1.2 for a while because 2.8.1 doesn't do namespaces! =)  
The sheer irony is that our NT Microsoft Visual DevStudio 5.0 development
environment supports namespaces. How embarrassing.

I'll add my congratulations for the team for a world-class compiler. Might
I suggest a slogan:

"Egcs reaches the parts that other C++ compilers doesn't!"

PS: I need some ammo in my war against my PHBs to get them to install egcs
and nuke gcc 2.8.1. Anyone care to help?

Cheers, 
Alex 
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