[TUHS] Gnu/Stallman (was Bugs in V6 'dcheck')

John Cowan cowan at mercury.ccil.org
Tue Jun 3 00:30:20 AEST 2014


Clem Cole scripsit:

> Frankly, we have seen few developer suites that have been as lasting and I
> might suggest that until the LLVM project there has been few (none) that
> have had a chance of being so [Tannebaum's compiler kit maybe - but I never
> same that it never really went anywhere].

"The university is free but the compiler is not", as Tanenbaum said to RMS.
However, eventually he caught up, and it was BSD-licensed in 2003.

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