Comments on DMD frontend.

[Jarrett Billingsley]

"DBloke" <DBloke at nowhere.org> wrote in message 
news:fps39f$1mfs$1 at digitalmars.com...
>
>> (I still have to write C sometimes, professionally).
> Nowt wrong with C :) especially back end stuff and the like, sadly C got 
> its bad name from trying to be an all things to all people language and 
> even today there is no such thing as a one language fits all as far as I 
> know, but D comes pretty darned close :)
>>
>> I don't care what language the D compiler is written in, as long as it
>> works. (Although now that D1 is stable, it would be quite cool to
>> rewrite it in that).
> An interesting idea ;), and probably an excellent example of the power of 
> D?

See Dil: http://code.google.com/p/dil/

It's already got the lexing and parsing done, as well as a better DDoc 
generator than the DMDFE.  And it's written entirely in D1.