Slashdot | Broadband Blimps

[Mark Nishimura]

Owen,

I was wondering if you or anyone else with Friam could point me in the
direction of a good open source version of GCC compiler.

Thanks,

Mark Nishimura

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Boy, SlashDot has had several good articles lately.  Here's a nifty one
on blimps for wifi/cellular:
     http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=04/07/06/1558259

        -- Owen

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[Russell Standish]

gcc is open source, and always has been (for 20 years or so). Source
code is available from http://www.gnu.org. Ah, but you need a working
compiler in order to compile it - this catch22 situation is called
bootstrapping.

Never fear - precompiled gcc packages for most OSes can be found on
the internet, just do a little Googling. Linux has gcc in all
distributions. Cygwin can be used for Windoze system, Apple has
packages from its download site (forget the name), etc., etc.

                                                Cheers

On Tue, Jul 06, 2004 at 08:47:47PM -0600, Mark Nishimura wrote:

> Owen,
>
> I was wondering if you or anyone else with Friam could point me in the
> direction of a good open source version of GCC compiler.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Mark Nishimura
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [hidden email] [mailto:[hidden email]] On
> Behalf Of Owen Densmore
> Sent: Tuesday, July 06, 2004 12:29 PM
> To: The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Friam
> Subject: [FRIAM] Slashdot | Broadband Blimps
>
>
> Boy, SlashDot has had several good articles lately.  Here's a nifty one
> on blimps for wifi/cellular:
>      http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=04/07/06/1558259
>
> -- Owen
>
> Owen Densmore         908 Camino Santander   Santa Fe, NM 87505
> Cell: 505-570-0168    Home: 505-988-3787     http://backspaces.net
>
>
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[Jochen Fromm]

> gcc is open source, and always has been (for 20 years or so). Source
> code is available from http://www.gnu.org. Ah, but you need a working
> compiler in order to compile it - this catch22 situation is called
> bootstrapping.

Interesting. I have not read Catch-22 from Joseph Heller, but I
recently saw it on a Top-Ten list of books people would like to read
in their holidays in an English newspaper. Women prefer for example
Riders (Jilly Cooper), Bridget Jones' Diary (Helen Fielding),
Birdsong (Sebastian Faulks), The Horse Wisperer (Nicholas Evans)
and Chocolat (Joanne Harris). Men allegedly prefer
High Fidelity (Nick Hornby), The Firm (John Grisham),
The Lord of the Rings (Tolkien), Fever Pitch (Nick Hornby)
and Catch 22 (Joseph Heller).

It is interesting to see that a "Catch-22" situation is
also related to Bootstrapping, the Chicken-Egg problem and
the "what came first" question. I wrote something
about the Chicken-Egg problem in my book. The
answer to the "what came first" question is of course
evolution. Wikipedia says it is one of the most debated
questions of all time.


Bootstrapping
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bootstrapping

Chicken-Egg problem
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chicken_and_egg

Catch-22
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catch-22