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Re: Criteria for GCC 4.0
On Wed, Jun 02, 2004 at 10:45:44PM +0200, Gabriel Dos Reis wrote:
> Phil Edwards <phil@jaj.com> writes:
>
> [...]
>
> | I'm not arguing for /never/ having a 4.0 release (although others do take
> | that position, and it's a reasonable one). I'm arguing that mainline,
> | today, right now, does not qualify.
>
> The way your argumentation comes to me is that by the time we'll have
> 4.0.0, C or C++ would have already been replaced with quantum computing
> programming languages in common places.
*shrug* If nobody fixes stuff, then yes. It's already been stated by the
SC that we don't release code based only on a calendar. I simply think
we should strive for higher quality for "4.0" than what is currently on the
trunk, however long it takes.
It's not a popular opinion, and I didn't expect it would be.
--
I would therefore like to posit that computing's central challenge, viz. "How
not to make a mess of it," has /not/ been met.
- Edsger Dijkstra, 1930-2002