Re: GCC is 25 years old today

Rui Maciel <rui.maciel@gmail.com>
Wed, 28 Mar 2012 16:47:24 +0100

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From: Rui Maciel <rui.maciel@gmail.com>
Newsgroups: comp.compilers
Date: Wed, 28 Mar 2012 16:47:24 +0100
Organization: Aioe.org NNTP Server
References: 12-03-051 12-03-053
Keywords: GCC
Posted-Date: 29 Mar 2012 04:44:23 EDT

BGB wrote:


> 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.


But GCC isn't the only free compiler out there, and yet no other
compiler, paid or free, managed to attain the same level of
popularity. Couldn't it be possible that GCC's success is owed to
some determining factor other than price?




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


There are still paid compilers out there. If I'm not mistaken, Intel sells
its compiler for around 600 euros.




Rui Maciel
[I think it's fair to say that GCC was the first free compiler that
generated code competitive with commercial compilers. -John]


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