On Tue, Oct 6, 2026 at 2:23 AM Toon Moene <[email protected]> wrote: > > Dear all, > > Those of you who attended the GNU Tools Cauldron this weekend will have > noticed that I retired from the GCC Steering Committee, citing my age (I > will turn 70 in three weeks). > > I decided that it would be appropriate to do this openly, to > "counteract" the strange asymmetry that new members of the Steering > Committee are announced openly, but leaving members do so quietly. > > Of course, "age" is only a very narrow reason to retire - far more > important is my diminishing knowledge of relevant developments in GCC. > > [ For comparison, https://moene.org/~toon/nwp.ps is what I worked on > when the Steering Committee was formed in November 1998 - as you can see > it uses a now non-existent Fortran Frontend and misses the important > concepts "parallel" and "vector". ] > > I would like to thank all contributors to GCC I have worked with during > the years - it was a great experience !
Toon, Thanks for all of your hardwork and dedication to the GCC project. It definitely has been a pleasure to have you there advocating for use of gcc and gfortran for weather forecasting and more. Wish you the best in retirement. Thanks, Andrea > > Kind regards, > > -- > Toon Moene - e-mail: [email protected] - phone: +31 346 214290 > Saturnushof 14, 3738 XG Maartensdijk, The Netherlands >
