🚀 go-pugleaf

Sorry. I retract my statement that when it comes to compilers you
get what you pay for, at least as it concerns the particular case
of GNU. I've received nothing but praise (usually
stated quite angrily) via e-mail for the GNU family. I find this,
by the way, to be totally bizarre, since it seemingly flies in
the face of 6,000 years of free-market economic theory. Why something
free would be quite bug free and would have great support in contrast
to something that costs money is completely beyond me--were this true
in general one would expect cheap cars to be better than expensive
ones, and free cars to be best of all. Anybody care to enlighten me?

Incidentally, I'm curious about the scalability of the GNU stuff to
projects of significant scope and complexity. Do they work as well
on 2 MSLOC projects as they do on 5 KSLOC programs?

>It's been my experience that the vendors of compilers *never* share their
>bug list with customers.

The compiler vendor I used to work for not only published known
bugs but known workarounds as well. If this is not common practice,
it jolly well ought to be.
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