Of Bounties and Mercenaries

[Daniel Berlin]

On Apr 5, 2004, at 11:08 PM, Stephan T. Lavavej wrote:

> [Ben Elliston]
>> This should be a side goal of future GCC work: to develop it
>> in a way that makes it easier for the uninitiated to hack on
>> it.  This includes removing complicated cruft and generally
>> trying to keep the code base small and as simple as possible.
>
> How about writing gcc in Modern, Standard C++?  You could do away with 
> your
> crazy garbage-collected C (double ugh).
>
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About half of us want to do this.
Another 25% want to rewrite it in some other language
The other 25% think converting it to ISO C went too far.
They also believe that english language development should have stopped 
with shakespeare, and that kids these days don't do anything right.
--Dan