Z:gnu-www-ja-byte-interview--e3ce80-=3Cstrong=3EStallman=3C/strong=3E: It'/en

Stallman : It's really hard to say. That could happen in a year, but of course it could take longer. It could also conceivably take less, but that's not too likely anymore. I think I'll have the compiler finished in a month or two. The only other large piece of work I really have to do is in the kernel. I first predicted GNU would take something like two years, but it has now been two and a half years and I'm still not finished. Part of the reason for the delay is that I spent a lot of time working on one compiler that turned out to be a dead end. I had to rewrite it completely. Another reason is that I spent so much time on GNU EMACS. I originally thought I wouldn't have to do that at all.