It is not flame bait. (BTW, I can't read your link due to Google's copyright restrictions.)
gas uses AT&T syntax because it needs a format that applies to multiple architectures. But the Intel format dominates Intel-specific compilers and, I expect, the mindshare of Intel assembly coders. The OSS world is no exception; the open-source Intel nasm and fasm assemblers use Intel format. Intel syntax is so popular, in fact, that gas itself was modified to support it: http://sourceware.org/binutils/docs-2.19/as/i386_002dSyntax....
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It is not flame bait. (BTW, I can't read your link due to Google's copyright restrictions.)
gas uses AT&T syntax because it needs a format that applies to multiple architectures. But the Intel format dominates Intel-specific compilers and, I expect, the mindshare of Intel assembly coders. The OSS world is no exception; the open-source Intel nasm and fasm assemblers use Intel format. Intel syntax is so popular, in fact, that gas itself was modified to support it: http://sourceware.org/binutils/docs-2.19/as/i386_002dSyntax....