Hi Walter, Apologies for the late reply.
Walter Bright <wal...@digitalmars.com> skribis:
> The D programming language compiler has been called dmd since about
> 2000 or so. In order to avoid confusion, may I request that the Gnu
> dmd ("Daemons-managing Daemon") change its acronym?
For the record, GNU’s dmd has been around since ~2003¹.
Changing names is obviously an annoyance, technically and otherwise.
We’re not opposed to the idea, but that would take a bit more discussion
among developers.
BTW, it is unfortunate that Digital Mars’ compiler back-end denies² its
users essential freedoms to help each other (through redistribution), to
adjust the code as they see fit, and to gain collective control of it
and improve it. I hope you will reconsider this choice and choose a
free software license.
Thanks,
Ludo’.
¹ <http://www.gnu.org/software/dmd/#history> (I added this section
recently.)
² As per <http://wiki.dlang.org/Compilers>.
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