Continuity problems

Posted Mar 23, 2012 4:06 UTC (Fri) by Cyberax (✭ supporter ✭, #52523)
In reply to: Continuity problems by james_ulrich
Parent article: GCC celebrates 25 years with the 4.7.0 release

Rewriting stuff in another language is actually a good way to clean up the code.

Which gcc badly needs.

Continuity problems

Posted Mar 23, 2012 13:27 UTC (Fri) by jzbiciak (guest, #5246) [Link]

Allow the cynic in me to make a possibly unfounded comment:

For some of GCC's ugliness, more of the improvement may come from the "rewrite" part than the "in C++" part. The "in C++" part just encourages a more thorough refactoring and rethinking of the problem, than a superficial tweaking-for-less-ugly.

In any case, nothing will fix GNU's ugly indenting standards as long as the language has a C/C++ style syntax. ;-)