is there a GCC history anywhere?

[Phil Edwards]

On Tue, Oct 14, 2003 at 11:46:41AM +0800, Jonathan Wilson wrote:
> Something that covers all the events in the history of GCC like the early 
> releases, the first releases with different languages, the EGCS story and 
> so on.

http://gcc.gnu.org/releases.html#timeline
http://gcc.gnu.org/steering.html (scroll down)

"GCC: The Complete Reference" may or may not go into the project's history,
I don't know.  It does propose that "GCC is the most important piece of
software in the world," which did wonders for my ego before the caffeine
wore off.  :-)

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