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GCC 4.0 Preview

Posted by timothy on from the dual-overhead-cams dept.

Reducer2001 writes "News.com is running a story previewing GCC 4.0. A quote from the article says, '(included will be) technology to compile programs written in Fortran 95, an updated version of a decades-old programming language still popular for scientific and technical tasks, Henderson said. And software written in the C++ programming language should run faster--"shockingly better" in a few cases.'"

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  1. ", which" vs. " that" by tepples · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    do you really not recognize a phrase intended for the portion of the audience that doesn't know what a compiler is?

    The construction "a compiler, which does foo" defines compiler, while "a compiler that does foo" implies that foo is specific to this compiler. There's a difference. If that's grammar national socialism, then Sieg Heil!