Author: David Rasmussen
Date: 17:14:13 06/18/01
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On June 18, 2001 at 18:16:53, Gian-Carlo Pascutto wrote: >On June 18, 2001 at 18:02:33, Dann Corbit wrote: > >>On June 18, 2001 at 12:38:19, Dan Andersson wrote: >> >>>http://www.gnu.org/press/2001-06-18-GCC.html >> >>It seems to be vapor-ware of some sort. >> >>I followed every link on the planet, and can't find a downloadble version at >any of the ftp sites. > >Slashdot effect or something. It should have been propagated to >the mirrors before the announcement came out, but it's not >unlikely those are out too. > >It'll break a lot of code. They may argue the code that breaks >was just broken already, but not being backwards-compatible sucks >anyway. > I disagree completely. It rules big time. If people want backwards compatibility, they can use old stuff. Making a clean break makes it possible to make a more well-designed system without regard for old odd idiomatic bugs and features of the old version. Intel should do the same. Make a clean break.
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