About the front-end & dogfood

Anders F Björklund afb at algonet.se
Fri Mar 7 14:26:33 PST 2008


Russell Lewis wrote:

>> Hmm, perhaps I'm missing something obvious here, but what would you use
>> to bootstrap the front end with ? Some kind of D-to-C transmogrifier ?
> 
> The inelegant, but practical, answer is "the previous version of the D 
> compiler."

That is what I suspected, which makes the whole thing kinda impractical.
I suppose D2 could be bootstrapped with D1, if one really really wanted.

Personally I prefer having the frontend written in a portable language.
There isn't that much difference between Walter's D and C++ anyway. :-)

--anders



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