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On Friday, 18 May 2018 01:56:12 UTC+1, Dan'l Miller  wrote:

> Does anyone know (or have a URL to) why GIGI was written in C instead of in Ada?  Obviously, it is calling much C code in the GCC backend world, so there is 

Stallman's a C guy. His original intent with GNU was to replace Unix with a more free version by rewriting everything. They started with the toolchain, which was originally in C, now it's been rewritten in C++.