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Re: Why your next language better be C++

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On 7/22/2011 2:21 AM, Rui Maciel wrote:
> BGB wrote:
>
>> but, GNU doesn't own C++, and even if G++ went away, there are still
>> other compilers (both free and commercial).
>
> Adding to this, the fact that GCC is released under the GPL means that if
> GNU happens to screw with GCC then it is always possible to fork it from
> where it matters and re-streer the project in a better direction.  It
> happened before (EGCS) and, if needed, I bet it can and will happen again.
>

yep, it can happen, even despite sometimes the level of pain required to 
coerce gcc to rebuild from source (albeit, then again, I have usually 
done so on Windows-based targets, such as Cygwin, and it may well be 
much easier to get it to rebuild on Linux).


>
>> granted, if not for GCC, maybe most compilers now would have still cost
>> money?...
>
> Indeed.  That's one of the biggest virtues of FLOSS projects: even if you
> don't use them they still represent an economic pressure on those who
> provide proprietary tools that are intended to play the same role, both in
> terms of price and in features offered.  And for the consumer that's always
> a good thing.
>

yep.

I remember back in the early 90s, when most compilers cost money. 
eventually, I found DJGPP, and messed with this for a while (before 
going and spending the next several years mostly in Linux-land).

in the early 2000s, I eventually returned to Windows land, being 
probably in the minority who used Win2k on a home system, rather than Win98.

by this point, IIRC, there was Cygwin and similar, so I carried on 
mostly as before.


meanwhile Linux has gotten better (drivers are much better and tend to 
now actually work), and the GUI has improved much since those days.

or such...

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Why your next language better be C++ Lynn McGuire <lmc@winsim.com> - 2011-07-18 11:18 -0500
  Re: Why your next language better be C++ "Paul" <pchristor@yahoo.co.uk> - 2011-07-18 19:46 +0100
  Re: Why your next language better be C++ Goran <goran.pusic@gmail.com> - 2011-07-19 00:03 -0700
    Re: Why your next language better be C++ "Bo Persson" <bop@gmb.dk> - 2011-07-19 17:19 +0200
    Re: Why your next language better be C++ Noah Roberts <dont@email.me> - 2011-07-19 09:39 -0700
    Re: Why your next language better be C++ Paavo Helde <myfirstname@osa.pri.ee> - 2011-07-19 13:35 -0500
      Re: Why your next language better be C++ James Kanze <james.kanze@gmail.com> - 2011-07-21 05:31 -0700
    Re: Why your next language better be C++ Lynn McGuire <lmc@winsim.com> - 2011-07-19 13:59 -0500
    Re: Why your next language better be C++ Rui Maciel <rui.maciel@gmail.com> - 2011-07-21 01:42 +0100
  Re: Why your next language better be C++ BGB <cr88192@hotmail.com> - 2011-07-19 03:00 -0700
    Re: Why your next language better be C++ Rui Maciel <rui.maciel@gmail.com> - 2011-07-21 01:28 +0100
      Re: Why your next language better be C++ BGB <cr88192@hotmail.com> - 2011-07-21 00:37 -0700
        Re: Why your next language better be C++ Jorgen Grahn <grahn+nntp@snipabacken.se> - 2011-07-21 15:53 +0000
          Re: Why your next language better be C++ BGB <cr88192@hotmail.com> - 2011-07-21 12:31 -0700
            Re: Why your next language better be C++ Rui Maciel <rui.maciel@gmail.com> - 2011-07-22 10:21 +0100
              Re: Why your next language better be C++ BGB <cr88192@hotmail.com> - 2011-07-22 10:43 -0700
  Re: Why your next language better be C++ James Kanze <james.kanze@gmail.com> - 2011-07-20 13:12 -0700
    Re: Why your next language better be C++ "JBarleycorn" <jbnh2o@newsnet.org> - 2011-07-20 15:52 -0500
      Re: Why your next language better be C++ James Kanze <james.kanze@gmail.com> - 2011-07-21 05:39 -0700
        Re: Why your next language better be C++ "JBarleycorn" <jbnh2o@newsnet.org> - 2011-07-21 14:54 -0500
          Re: Why your next language better be C++ Noah Roberts <dont@email.me> - 2011-07-21 13:47 -0700
          Re: Why your next language better be C++ Rui Maciel <rui.maciel@gmail.com> - 2011-07-22 10:30 +0100
          Re: Why your next language better be C++ James Kanze <james.kanze@gmail.com> - 2011-07-22 12:35 -0700
          Re: Why your next language better be C++ "Bo Persson" <bop@gmb.dk> - 2011-07-23 16:30 +0200
            Re: Why your next language better be C++ BGB <cr88192@hotmail.com> - 2011-07-23 12:04 -0700
            Re: Why your next language better be C++ Werner <werasm@gmail.com> - 2011-07-25 00:00 -0700
    Re: Why your next language better be C++ Lynn McGuire <lmc@winsim.com> - 2011-07-20 17:36 -0500
      Re: Why your next language better be C++ "Bo Persson" <bop@gmb.dk> - 2011-07-21 20:42 +0200
    Re: Why your next language better be C++ Ebenezer <woodbrian77@gmail.com> - 2011-07-20 22:36 -0700
    Re: Why your next language better be C++ Michael DOUBEZ <michael.doubez@free.fr> - 2011-07-21 04:52 -0700
    Re: Why your next language better be C++ "JBarleycorn" <jbnh2o@newsnet.org> - 2011-07-21 17:54 -0500

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