On Wed, 11 Apr 2012 10:30:36 -0700 Xinliang David Li <davi...@google.com> wrote: [..] > > yes -- GCC is not considered old and not 'cool' -- so it is hard to > advertise. One criteria to see GCC's future popularity is how widely > it is adopted by academia ..
Do you mean used by academia (including teaching programming with students using GCC), or do you mean that academia is teaching the internals of GCC, and e.g. have lots of e.g. PhD students & professors doing their research using and *improving* GCC. My feeling is that the plugin ability of GCC should help academia to work more on (that is, "inside") GCC, to only to use GCC. (and I am not very very optimistic, in particular because the internal APIs of GCC are not very well documented, not very well agreed upon...). Cheers. -- Basile STARYNKEVITCH http://starynkevitch.net/Basile/ email: basile<at>starynkevitch<dot>net mobile: +33 6 8501 2359 8, rue de la Faiencerie, 92340 Bourg La Reine, France *** opinions {are only mine, sont seulement les miennes} ***
