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From: David Starner <dvdeug@email.ro>
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On Wed, 28 Jan 2004 22:03:18 -0500, Stephen Leake wrote:

> This is a typical problem with open source/bazarre development
> projects. If one subgroup has significantly different goals than the
> general group, they will get left out.

I hardly see how this is a problem with open source. If
Microsoft had an Ada frontend to their compiler, and was looking
to replace the middle layer with a all-around superior one, do
you think they'd hesitate to release a new Visual C++ because Visual
Ada wasn't ported to the new middle end?
 
> ACT has much higher quality goals than the general gcc group. 

Any evidence for this, or is this just jingoism?