[Discuss] Why use Linux?

[smallm at panix.com (Mike Small)]

Richard Pieri <richard.pieri at gmail.com> writes:
> Apple switched from GCC to LLVM/Clang four or five years ago
> specifically because the Free Software folks were dragging their heels
> on keeping GCC up to date with emerging C and C++ standards and 64-bit
> support. Yes, the switch is painful. Blame the FSF for that one, not Apple.

This must have been a healthy kick in the butt for gcc, then, because
from what I hear gcc is in no way lagging llvm/clang (or any other C++
compiler -- they're both way ahead of Microsoft) implementing C++11 and
C++14 features today.  I've heard other theories for Apple's choice,
often referencing a meeting between rms and Jobs concerning another
object orientish c-like language in another era, but probably this kind
of topic has already been done to death in other parts of this thread,
when this came up on slashdot, and when ESR walked the idea around
various GNU development lists where it didn't belong.

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Mike Small
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