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Re: Patch for sC++ to GNU C++.

To: mark at markmitchell dot com
Subject: Re: Patch for sC++ to GNU C++.
From: Chip Salzenberg <chip at perlsupport dot com>
Date: Fri, 23 Oct 1998 00:15:35 -0400
Cc: jbuck at synopsys dot com, Jan dot Madsen at epfl dot ch, egcs at cygnus dot com, jason at cygnus dot com
References: <199810211938.MAA12692@atrus.synopsys.com> <199810221459.HAA05879@smtp.earthlink.net>

According to Mark Mitchell:
> In fact, I'm thinking about how to (partially) reunify
> the C and C++ front-ends.

Yes!

> Please, let's not duplicate any more code.

Right. The creation of G++ by duplicating C front end sources was its
primary design flaw.

Salzenberg's First Rule of Programming: "Thou Shalt Not Repeat Thyself."
-- 
Chip Salzenberg               - a.k.a. -              <chip@perlsupport.com>
 "... under cover of afternoon in the biggest car in the county?!" //MST3K

References:
- Re: Patch for sC++ to GNU C++.
  - From: Joe Buck
- Re: Patch for sC++ to GNU C++.
  - From: Mark Mitchell

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