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Why does OSX Snow Leopard ship with GCC 4.2.1, and is it possible (advisable?) to upgrade?

Maybe they have a good reason, but I'm struggling to understand why a new OS would still ship with such an old compiler that was originally released in 2007. Did Apple modify it heavily and so therefore it has some features that are required? Is it possible to just download 4.5.1 and use it with XCode? ...

scripting "system preferences" "language & text"

I need to change, using applescript, the listbox "region", in the system preferences|language & text section. I can't access this listbox - see code below. tell application "System Preferences" activate get the name of every pane of application "System Preferences" set the current pane to pane id "com.apple.Localization" ...