[sohail]

FINALLY! Now can someone please rewrite GCC? That is the ugliest piece of code I've ever seen.

[ashu]

Is it hindering innovation to that extent to justify the rewrite? Remember, GCC is the one of the most fundamental pieces of software running the entire OSS eco-system. It's internal beauty isn't so much important as it's utility to this system.

[wmf]

Apparently GCC is crimping Apple's style enough to justify a rewrite, although that may be due to licensing and lack of modularity more than ugly code.

[ken]

Spoken like someone who's never tried to port GCC to a new CPU. It's seriously unfun.

[sadiq]

Check out clang, it's looking pretty promising.

[ralph]

It's being done. It's called LLVM. Apple have been sponsoring it.