Re: GCC is 25 years old today

BGB <cr88192@hotmail.com>
Sat, 24 Mar 2012 08:44:36 -0700

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From: BGB <cr88192@hotmail.com>
Newsgroups: comp.compilers
Date: Sat, 24 Mar 2012 08:44:36 -0700
Organization: albasani.net
References: 12-03-051
Keywords: GCC, history
Posted-Date: 26 Mar 2012 04:16:23 EDT

On 3/22/2012 3:29 PM, Rui Maciel wrote:
> Today the GCC development team celebrates the 25th anniversary of the GNU
> Compiler Collection.
>
> Taken from:
> http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc/2012-03/msg00347.html


<snip, quote>


> In your views, what has been GCC's main contribution to the world of
> compilers?


maybe, being free.


I vaguely remember a time when compilers tended to cost money, and
weren't exactly cheap.


GCC showed up in various forms (such as DJGPP, and later Cygwin and
MinGW), and in not much time, most previously non-free compilers (MSVC,
Watcom, ...) became freely available as well.




if not for GCC, maybe compilers would tend to still cost money?
either that, or maybe this trend was inevitable?


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