On 8/30/05, Nicholas Nethercote <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Timothy has a good point. GCC is arguably more important than the Linux > kernel, yet it gets very little press and recognition. Note also that > everybody loves Linux (more or less) but people mostly bitch about GCC if > they think about it at all. Perhaps these facts are connected?
Oh, I see my share of bitching about Linux, and I'm not talking about the intelligent kind you get from developers (like what I see on the GCC Wiki). It's funny when you see a kernel expert (I mean that positively) make a boneheaded comment about GCC. :) But that's beside the point, and I agree with you that if GCC got more media attention, people would appreciate it more for its strengths and for its challenges that are far from trivial to fix.
