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Re: Of Bounties and Mercenaries
- From: Alexandre Oliva <aoliva at redhat dot com>
- To: <stl at caltech dot edu>
- Cc: "GCC" <gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org>
- Date: 06 Apr 2004 02:06:02 -0300
- Subject: Re: Of Bounties and Mercenaries
- Organization: Red Hat Global Engineering Services Compiler Team
- References: <20040406030858.17F92109B48@earth-ox.its.caltech.edu>
On Apr 6, 2004, "Stephan T. Lavavej" <stl@caltech.edu> wrote:
> How about writing gcc in Modern, Standard C++? You could do away with your
> crazy garbage-collected C (double ugh).
As much as I like C++, I don't see how switching to it would do away
with our need for garbage collection. And then, in order to enjoy the
benefits of C++, we'd have to pretty much rewrite gcc from scratch, at
which point the recollection of something I read springs to mind:
[googles a bit] ah, yes:
http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/fog0000000069.html
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