DMD build

[Russel Winder]

On Fri, 2012-12-28 at 16:30 +0100, David Nadlinger wrote:
> On Friday, 28 December 2012 at 15:18:17 UTC, Russel Winder wrote:
> > Is there a reason for using g++ to compile and link the C code 
> > of DMD?
> 
> DMD is actually written in C++, Walter just chose file names 
> ending in .c for some strange reason.

I can understand using C++ rather than C, but (sorry Walter) naming the
files X.c is a f###### stupid idea. The standard name strategy is one of
X.C, X.cc, or X.cpp, for very good reasons.

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