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Re: More NEWS on GCC?
On 8/30/05, Nicholas Nethercote <njn@cs.utexas.edu> wrote:
> Timothy has a good point. GCC is arguably more important than the Linux
> kernel, yet it gets very little press and recognition. Note also that
> everybody loves Linux (more or less) but people mostly bitch about GCC if
> they think about it at all. Perhaps these facts are connected?
Oh, I see my share of bitching about Linux, and I'm not talking about
the intelligent kind you get from developers (like what I see on the
GCC Wiki). It's funny when you see a kernel expert (I mean that
positively) make a boneheaded comment about GCC. :) But that's
beside the point, and I agree with you that if GCC got more media
attention, people would appreciate it more for its strengths and for
its challenges that are far from trivial to fix.