On Sun, Mar 22, 2009 at 11:35 AM, Richard Kenner <ken...@vlsi1.ultra.nyu.edu> wrote: >> In the past, RMS had asserted that use some specific programming >> language with an international standard developed by ISO >> was unacceptable for the GNU project (and GCC in particular). >> That had had the practical effect of delaying for years, >> developments of projects both in GCC and directly related to GCC. > > I'm not sure I understand your reference, but those are clearly generic
http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc/2004-07/msg00588.html > issues relating to management of FSF projects overall and to philosophical > issues related to Free Software. That's very clearly the prerogative of > the FSF. What I heard claimed was that there was interference in the > *technical* issues, such as when to take branches or similar specific > technical choices. I've heard of no such examples before this one. Yes, surely you have heard of stonewalling use of C++ to directly express some of the abstractions we use in the compiler. -- Gaby
