GCC in C++ branch created

[Tobias Burnus]

Bud Davis wrote:
>> I have to confess to this nagging temptation to rewrite the gfortran
>> frontend in F95.... :)
>>     
>> Paul
>>     
>
> There is something intrinsically appealing about writing a compiler in it's sown language.
If I remember correctly, there was a commercial compiler (maybe Cray) 
which was written in Fortran; I think their C compiler either wrote 
Fortran or used the Fortran-compiler backend.

Tobias