Brian Hechinger wrote:
> 
> i think this here is the part about GCC that iritates me.  it seems that not
> long after ANSI C started to come into play, GCC came along and completely
> ignored the ANSI C standard.  it's almost as if the attitude of the FSF was
> that commercial compilers were bad, so they wanted to make them harder to use.
> 

The FSF had some issues with things like trigraphs in the
ANSI standard. They may be a dubious feature, but to then go
and ignore ANSI compliance altogether is a bit of a pisser.

Perhaps this ties in with the "GNU's Not Unix" philosophy. If
the environment the FSF is hoping to build isn't really Unix,
then maybe they don't see standard conformance as a plus. In
that case, I'm glad there's alternatives like the *BSDs which
strive for POSIX conformance.

Chris

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