In a way there is some aspect of history repeating itself. The current compiler known as "GCC" is a direct descendant of an earlier GCC fork named EGCS: http:

In a way there is some aspect of history repeating itself. The current compiler known as "GCC" is a direct descendant of an earlier GCC fork named EGCS: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNU_Compiler_Collection#EGCS_fork http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNU_Compiler_Collection#EGCS_fo... So GCC was already "unseated" once, the difference being by a direct descendant instead of by a fully different compiler.