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   On 3/22/2012 3:29 PM, Rui Maciel wrote:   
   > Today the GCC development team celebrates the 25th anniversary of the GNU   
   > Compiler Collection.   
   >   
   > Taken from:   
   > http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc/2012-03/msg00347.html   
      
      
      
   > In your views, what has been GCC's main contribution to the world of   
   > compilers?   
      
   maybe, being free.   
      
   I vaguely remember a time when compilers tended to cost money, and   
   weren't exactly cheap.   
      
   GCC showed up in various forms (such as DJGPP, and later Cygwin and   
   MinGW), and in not much time, most previously non-free compilers (MSVC,   
   Watcom, ...) became freely available as well.   
      
      
   if not for GCC, maybe compilers would tend to still cost money?   
   either that, or maybe this trend was inevitable?   
      
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