"I've found myself writing a lot of C code this year. I've come to appreciate the power of a good compiler, especially when trying to walk other people through compiling my supposedly cross-platform code on Windows with MSVC.
"GCC may not always produce the fastest code or compile with the greatest speed, but it's reliable, and once I have code compiling with GCC on Linux, I have confidence that it will compile for just about any other free Unix with GCC..."