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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