is there a GCC history anywhere?

[Stan Shebs]

Phil Edwards wrote:

>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.  :-)
>
The real history of GCC would be a little like Daniel Ellsberg's history
of the Vietnam war, the one better known as the Pentagon papers... :-)
Much of GCC's development history is still locked up in non-public
archives - another downside of cathedral-style process.

Stan