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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.)
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Date: 9 Aug 89 14:48:01 GMT
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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

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