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To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com
Subject: Re: How could DJGPP remain the best?
Message-ID: <19970115.145444.11071.0.chambersb@juno.com>
References: <5b5l0r$b3h AT nexp DOT crl DOT com>
From: chambersb AT juno DOT com (Benjamin D Chambers)
Date: Wed, 15 Jan 1997 17:55:24 EST

On Fri, 10 Jan 1997 14:49:04 GMT weiqigao AT crl DOT com (Weiqi Gao) writes:
>OK, it's Friday, and I'm have free-flowing thoughts.
>
>One of them is this:  We keep hearing that DJGPP is the best compiler
>in its class.  But how could that be so if the complete source code is
>awailable publicly.  Couldn't the people at, say, Watcom, simply
>examine the code and come up with better ideas?
Couldn't the people at, say, MIT simply examine the sun and come up with
a better light?

Being ingenuitive is pretty darn tricky :)

...Chambers

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