D parser in tango or phobos

[David Wilson]

2008/9/6 Bruce Adams <tortoise_74 at yeah.who.co.uk>:

> Python has a python parser written in python. The main interpreter is
> written in C for portability.
> That is a good reason and the same reason applies for D. Why in this day and
> age C++ isn't considered
> portable by most such project is beyond me.
> I particularly like gcc's approach of bootstraping itself to full
> functionality. Its a shame the insides
> are so gnarly.

FYI, one of the GCC maintainers (Ian Lance Taylor) recently created a
branch of GCC that begins to introduce template usage in the GCC
source itself.

http://www.airs.com/ian/cxx-slides.pdf


David

>
> Regards,
>
> Bruce.
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