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Ian Lance Taylor wrote:

> I have a different fear: that gcc will become increasing irrelevant,
> as more and more new programmers learn to work on alternative free
> compilers instead.  That is neutral with regard to freedom, but it
> will tend to lose the many years of experience which have been put
> into gcc.  In my view, if we can't even get ourselves together to
> permit something as simple as plugins with an unstable API, then we
> deserve to lose.

That's precisely my concern.


Diego.