[Bug fortran/25705] fortran goto from inner IF to outer ELSE (more complex than PR17708)

["steven at gcc dot gnu dot org" <gcc-bugzilla at gcc dot gnu dot org>]

------- Comment #3 from steven at gcc dot gnu dot org  2006-01-08 17:35 -------
Re. #1, where you wrote: "What the using community needs are not arguments but
continued use of working programs. Rewrites are OK when there are clear
advantages in efficiency or less susceptibility to fraudulent use of existing
code."

I don't want to get into this whole flame war any more than the others.  But I
do want to give you my view on these remarks.

You clearly don't understand why g77 had to be rewritten, and you (and much of
the rest of the "using community") also don't understand how GCC development
works.  So let me try to explain that first.

If it were not for the efforts of a small number of Fortran *users*, there
would not be a gfortran.  I emphasize users here because all of us gfortran
developers are Fortran users first, gfortran developers second.

This rewrite has nothing to do with efficiency or improved support for the
language.  It was about making Fortran survive as a language supported by GCC. 
Most GCC developers don't care about Fortran at all.  And quite understandably
so: You get no money but tons of complaints for working on Fortran.  The
scientific community is a demanding miser.  C and C++ are still the languages
that much of the GCC community makes a living of.  G77 was rotting and holding
back GCC development.  If G77 had not been rewritten, Fortran would probably
have been dropped as a supported language in GCC 4.0.

The people working on gfortran are Fortran users who understood that Fortran as
a language would just be ditched from GCC altogether unless G77 would be
rewriten from scratch.  Literally all gfortran hackers are volunteers who don't
get a penny for their work.  What this development community does _not_ need is
people like you who think it is OK to take our development effort and never
contribute back anything other than complaints and insults.  People making
comments like yours are only going to make me (as one of the founders of the
gfortran project) and others less willing to work on gfortran.

The developers working on gfortran, and on gcc as a whole, try to do the best
they can, but manpower is limited and all of us are volunteers.  If what we
create is not good enough, accept it and help make it better, or go buy a
commercial compiler.


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