GCC 4.6

[Jonathan M Davis]

On Sunday 31 October 2010 16:02:13 Walter Bright wrote:
> Your comments are typical in that I've been told for nearly 30 years now
> that I and the people who work with me cannot produce a competitive
> compiler. Yet we have and do. I'd have never accomplished anything if I
> listened to such loser talk. I've made a good living ignoring the constant
> stream of experts telling me I can't do it.
> 
> I remember one journalist who was always telling me that he'd seen the next
> release of Microsoft's compiler, and that it would put me out of business.
> The release would come, and there'd be no decline in sales. So what did he
> do? He'd say "yeah, ok, but the next one will surely destroy your
> company!"
> 
> The world is full of losers and loser talk.

Well, I expect that if you didn't produce a high quality compiler, you wouldn't 
have been out of business ages ago. In many ways, Microsoft's compiler is the de 
facto standard for C++ development on Windows, so you're going to have to do 
something to stand out if you want people to go with dmc. So, dmc pretty much 
has to be of high quality or it would be dead by now. Personally, I'd never even 
heard of you or Digital Mars prior to learning about D, and I'm sure that there 
are plenty of other C++ programmers out there in the same boat. Just because dmc 
isn't bigger than Microsoft's compiler doesn't mean that it's worse. If 
anything, the fact that it's still used in spite of Microsoft's dominance 
implies that it's actually better than Microsoft's compiler.

> And yes, I wish I could clone Don.

LOL.