Re:Why people were enthused about GCC early on in its life
by ChuckMcM on Monday February 02, 2015 @07:16PM
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It's not that you are weird you just haven't looked too closely at clang :-)
On a more serious note, the whole "I feel <x> about GCC" has a certain challenge about it as GCC isn't a compiler so much as it is a very long story. I think I have pretty much had every emotion you can have with respect to GCC, whether it was admiration for supporting an obscure platform, hatred for a gratuitous interdependency on a library, or respect for a particularly clean compilation. But over its life it has gone in many directions and gone through many theories of how a compiler should be written, and some of those chapters are very dark indeed.
I was also amused that there is a link chain to the 'kissed a girl' email that Bryan Cantrill (CTO of Joyent) wrote back in 1996. Proof that the Internet really really doesn't like sarcasm.
On a more serious note, the whole "I feel <x> about GCC" has a certain challenge about it as GCC isn't a compiler so much as it is a very long story. I think I have pretty much had every emotion you can have with respect to GCC, whether it was admiration for supporting an obscure platform, hatred for a gratuitous interdependency on a library, or respect for a particularly clean compilation. But over its life it has gone in many directions and gone through many theories of how a compiler should be written, and some of those chapters are very dark indeed.
I was also amused that there is a link chain to the 'kissed a girl' email that Bryan Cantrill (CTO of Joyent) wrote back in 1996. Proof that the Internet really really doesn't like sarcasm.