DMD 1.031 and 2.015 releases
bearophile
bearophileHUGS at lycos.com
Thu Jun 19 16:52:11 PDT 2008
Charles Hixson:
> A D compiler option to emit C code? (Or C++ code?) It wouldn't need to
> be as efficient as D-to-executable in order to be portable.
>
> (Yes, it would probably be a huge undertaking. But it's an option for
> portability that would allow D to be written in D. I believe this kind
> of bootstrapping was first used by Algol.)
Written in Python maybe :-) High level languages may be acceptable to write first gen compilers. (ShedSkin is written in Python and it works well enough, so it's possible).
Bye,
bearophile
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