InfoHelp wrote:
By settling on a standard set of tools (the best deducible) & deepening the knowledge of them, CLUG would spend less time moving in circles.
I like circles :-) But what do you mean by best?
Sharing a pointer from Jim last night, if I remember correctly, the GCC compiler tools were attached to "Linux" development *because* they were - & remain - the best available. The GCC compiler is a GNU product.
Bet on it not being outcoded.
Well, tcc (tinycc) compiles code faster than gcc, and icc (intel cc) usually produces faster code (on intel platforms obviously) than gcc. But, gcc can compile for the most number of platforms though (some of which you've probably never heard of!). Large programs in C tend to be tied not only to a particular compiler, but to a particular version of that compiler. Again, "the best available" depends on what is best.
As usual, "best" may vary from person to person and task to task.
Cheers, Carl.
