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His point is not that one compiler is good or not good or bad or not bad. His point is that you're veering pretty far from the discussion by singling out a compiler unrelated to the originally posted one with rather distasteful vitriol. Being anonymous on the internet can lend to more immature discourse, but it's up to the human behind the keyboard to pull back the reigns.


His point attempts to be that I'm ignorant of the work that went into GCC, a compiler I've been using since about 1997 IIRC on almost every platform it supports, and that I'm generally a bad person.

My point is that a compiler that Just Works is sometimes preferable to one that Does More imperfectly.


Yes that was the first clause of your original post but evidently not the last.




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