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From: Lyndon Nerenberg <lyndon@orthanc.ca>
Subject: Re: [9fans] new compilers
Date: Sun, 26 Mar 2006 00:14:02 -0800
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@cse.psu.edu>
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On Mar 25, 2006, at 6:52 PM, quanstro@quanstro.net wrote:

> i've got to say one thing in gcc's favor. it was way the heck
> better than
> any other compiler i had available when it was first written.

I have fond memories of threatining the Sun sales sloths with death
and worse if they didn't at least ship .h files after they unbundled
the C compiler.  Sun is as responsible for GCC as the AT&T lawyers
are responsible for Linux.

--lyndon