[OT?] C compiler written form scratch in D

[Stefan Koch via Digitalmars-d-announce]

On Tuesday, 9 December 2014 at 07:58:51 UTC, Iain Buclaw via 
Digitalmars-d-announce wrote:
> On 9 Dec 2014 07:00, "Stefan Koch via Digitalmars-d-announce" <
> digitalmars-d-announce at puremagic.com> wrote:
>>
>> On Monday, 8 December 2014 at 21:04:17 UTC, John wrote:
>>>
>>> On Monday, 8 December 2014 at 19:35:54 UTC, Stefan Koch wrote:
>>
>>
>>>> think of them as beta quality!
>>
>>
>>> You may have to either pause when you need to cough and 
>>> sneeze or just
> edit that out. I am interested in this topic but the horrible 
> quality of
> audio video made me puke.
>>
>>
>>
>> Sorry. I will shoot the next videos when I am healthy again.
>>
>> I thought about writing the code beforehand, and then just go 
>> through and
> explain it. What do you think of that ?
>>
>> @ibuclaw You did not misshear, I really said that :( . I was 
>> referring I
> to the fact, that I do not parse uppercase letters atm. 
> Probably should
> edit out such non-sense.
>
> Yah, my next question would have been: How do you intend to 
> have a self
> hosted C compiler handwritten in pure D?  :)

Well, I intended to extend the compiler later on.
So I can compile C+x where the X is whatever is needed to get it 
self-hosting.