> both of which are more or less crappy xterm (not vt100, not vt220) emulators The fact that they consume less, work faster, have clean and actually readable code which you can hack through without symptoms of nausea -- all these make tham crappier than the xterm?! All the cars in the world more or less emulate each other, have a wheel and engine, so screw the innovation! Let's stick with that Ford Model T vehicle, it's a real thing.
Really, no offence please, I just simply don't get it. As for GCC, I guess, I realize the complexity of the problem. Still, why not make a split. Like Clang for i386/amd64 guys with all the new and fancy and then make a balanced transition slowly phasing out aging architectures? Regards, Hans.
