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     Re: life ?   
     By: Maurice Kinal to Rob Swindell on Mon Mar 02 2020 10:41 pm   
      
    > Hallo Rob!   
    >   
    >  RS> I'd bet the farm that it'll out live you and me!   
    >   
    > Speaking for myself, that ain't saying much since I am in my so-called   
    > twilight years.   
      
   I'm no fan of Java, but I think it still has a lot of momentum and thus, life,   
   left.   
      
    >  RS> If you're building clang from source, then yes, you'd need a   
    >  RS> compiler to do that.   
    >   
    > Right.  Same with gcc which I expect to be upgrading soon (9.3.0).   
    >   
    >  RS> And I wonder why you'd want to.   
    >   
    > A number of reasons.  Mostly it is a very good distraction for me and has   
    > proven itself over the decades to be good exersize for the brain.  For sure   
    > I am not in it for the money unless you count the money I've spent over the   
    > years.   
    >   
    >  RS> Got something against gcc?   
    >   
    > The exact opposite.  The idea of a purely clang built linux-gnu has me   
    > intrigued though and I'd like to see one in action, which means I'll have to   
    > build it myself given that nobody else appears to be able to, including   
    > mandriva which I believe has made misleading statements over this very   
    > issue.   
    >   
    > Can you say otherwise and (more importantly) prove it?   
      
   No. I use both gcc and clang daily and have no particular interest in a   
   Clang-based GNU/Linux distro.    
      
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