> #define AUTHOR "mouse@Collatz.McRCIM.McGill.EDU (der Mouse)"
> 
> /*
>  * (Many (most?) businesses run COBOL applications.
>  * Should we therefore require that NetBSD come with a COBOL compiler?)
>
> [ ... ]
> 
> It happened for C/C++ because the demand was there.  gcc and g++ aren't
> the greatest, but they're there and they seem to work, inasmuch as they
> generate code which tricks the kernel into thinking it's loadable :-).

worth noting: the only reason why _I_ consider it
necessary/appropriate to include c++/g++ in the distribution is
because it's required to compiled groff, and i _do_ think that groff
and friends are necessary.  8-)


chris