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FINALLY! Now can someone please rewrite GCC? That is the ugliest piece of code I've ever seen.

• sadiq 18y ago
  Check out clang, it's looking pretty promising.
• ashu 18y ago
  Is it hindering innovation to that extent to justify the rewrite? Remember, GCC is the one of the most fundamental pieces of software running the entire OSS eco-system. It's internal beauty isn't so much important as it's utility to this system.
  • wmf 18y ago
    Apparently GCC is crimping Apple's style enough to justify a rewrite, although that may be due to licensing and lack of modularity more than ugly code.
  • ken 18y ago
    Spoken like someone who's never tried to port GCC to a new CPU. It's seriously unfun.
• ralph 18y ago
  It's being done. It's called LLVM. Apple have been sponsoring it.