Re: BSD Licensed C++ compiler

From: Alex Colvin (alexc_at_TheWorld.com)
Date: 10/28/05 

Date: Fri, 28 Oct 2005 20:29:41 +0000 (UTC)

>I think the main reason there's no BSD C/C++ compiler is that the
>GNU "C/C++" compiler is "good enough".

I think another reason is that C++ has grown so that writing a C++
compiler ab initio is no longer practical.

According to the comp.compilers archives,
>Just a word of warning. Walter Bright, who implemented an early C++ compiler, had this to say in comp.lang.c++.moderated recently:

>>"I'd venture that it would take 10 years to write a C++ compiler from scratch." 

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	mac the naïf
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