[lbo-talk] ubuntu stuff

[// ravi]

On Aug 18, 2009, at 12:10 PM, Jordan Hayes wrote:
> But: it's a singular example, and was quickly overtaken by advances  
> in compiler technology that made it into the for-pay compilers, and  
> gcc has never really recovered.  It is no longer anywhere close to  
> the best compiler out there,...

This is all arguable (especially in the sphere of cooked benchmark  
numbers) but gcc is very much in use (though you are essentially right  
about the confusion surrounding GCC3 and the EGCS adventures). Not  
just within the FOSS space, where of course it is the de facto  
compiler, but in a wide range of applications, including embedded  
systems. As a lot of the online applications world moves to  
interpreted languages, you see a corresponding adoption of other FOSS  
technologies such as Perl, Python, RoR, PHP, etc.

As the gay community says: we are here, we are freer... deal with  
it! ;-) ;-)

	--ravi