Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!att!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!yale!Horne-Scott From: Horne-Scott@cs.yale.edu (Scott Horne) Newsgroups: comp.misc Subject: Re: Borland and other proprietary bloodsuckers (Was: Re: BISON, GCC, and the GNU public license.) Message-ID: <69085@yale-celray.yale.UUCP> Date: 9 Aug 89 14:48:01 GMT References: <26@ark1.nswc.navy.mil> <68903@yale-celray.yale.UUCP> <5580@ficc.uu.net> <68993@yale-celray.yale.UUCP> <36119@bu-cs.BU.EDU> Sender: root@yale.UUCP Reply-To: Horne-Scott@cs.yale.edu (Scott Horne) Organization: Yale University Computer Science Dept, New Haven, CT 06520-2158 Lines: 25 In-reply-to: ckd@bu-pub.bu.edu (Christopher K Davis) In article <36119@bu-cs.BU.EDU>, ckd@bu-pub (Christopher K Davis) writes: > On 8 Aug 89 15:33:40 GMT, > Horne-Scott@cs.yale.edu (Scott Horne) said: > > Scott> GNU CC doesn't even run on a PC (so far as I know). Your comment is > Scott> therefore meaningless. > > Uh, maybe that was his POINT? That since GCC won't even run on a PC, it's > not going to do a very good job for a PC-based programmer... The best you can say without entailing yourself in somewhat arcane philosophical discussion is that existing commercial PC compilers do a better job than existing GNU PC compilers, as the latter don't exist. This enforces *my* point: that commercial compilers are so much more popular than noncommercial ones only because noncommercial ones don't exist (or are few, anyway). --Scott Scott Horne Undergraduate programmer, Yale CS Dept Facility horne@cs.Yale.edu ...!{harvard,cmcl2,decvax}!yale!horne Home: 203 789-0877 SnailMail: Box 7196 Yale Station, New Haven, CT 06520 Work: 203 432-1260 Summer residence: 175 Dwight St, New Haven, CT Dare I speak for the amorphous gallimaufry of intellectual thought called Yale?