Why not contribute? (to GCC)

[Michael Witten]

On Fri, Apr 23, 2010 at 14:10, Richard Kenner
<kenner@vlsi1.ultra.nyu.edu> wrote:
> I've happened to be looking at a number of other free-software projects
> recently (having nothing to do with compilers) and find the quality of the
> code ABSOLUTELY APALLING.  The formatting is random and very hard to read.
> There are almost no comments.  There are few, if any, indications of what
> each function is supposed to do.  And many of these projects have no
> documentation AT ALL except for some small FAQs or Wikis.

Funny. I've always felt the same way about gcc and most GNU codebases...

In fact, I've always felt the same way about the vast majority of
codebases that aren't my own :-D