On Fri, 29 Jun 2018 18:37:08 +0100, Ahem A Rivet's Shot
 wrote:

> Going back to when gcc was young around the early 90s it was a
>significant improvement on the C compilers included with most Unix systems.
>Many unix houses switched to it so that they could at least be consistent
>across the platforms they supported and not have to workaround different
>bugs on each platform.
>
> Since then all the crap C compilers that used to get bundled have
>gone and the only commercial C compilers remaining are the very good ones
>because you can't sell (or give away) a crap C compiler now.

Thanks for that - an interesting read.

Stephen

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