From: khan AT xraylith DOT wisc DOT edu (Mumit Khan)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject: Re: Templates, namespaces
Date: 29 Jan 1999 23:09:48 GMT
Organization: Center for X-ray Lithography, UW-Madison
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In article <3 DOT 0 DOT 6 DOT 32 DOT 19990129173547 DOT 008383b0 AT pop DOT netaddress DOT com>,
Paul Derbyshire  <djgpp AT delorie DOT com> wrote:
>At 06:55 PM 1/28/99 GMT, you wrote:
>
>A year ago I seem to recall someone saying they'd get gcc/egcs up to being
>reasonably compatible with ANSI C++ in a year...which has now elapsed. Has
>somebody been reneging?

You do know that a large percentage of GCC development is done by
unpaid volunteers, right? 

The C++ language conformance in EGCS is better than 90% of the commercial
offerings right now. The standard library, and the sore spot ;-), is 
being worked on. 

To be quite honest, I'm beginning to smell a troll here.

Regards,
Mumit