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Re: Of Bounties and Mercenaries
- From: "Stephan T. Lavavej" <stl at caltech dot edu>
- To: "GCC" <gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org>
- Date: Mon, 5 Apr 2004 20:08:55 -0700
- Subject: Re: Of Bounties and Mercenaries
- Reply-to: <stl at caltech dot edu>
[Ben Elliston]
> This should be a side goal of future GCC work: to develop it
> in a way that makes it easier for the uninitiated to hack on
> it. This includes removing complicated cruft and generally
> trying to keep the code base small and as simple as possible.
How about writing gcc in Modern, Standard C++? You could do away with your
crazy garbage-collected C (double ugh).
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