dmd2

[Peter Alexander]

On Sunday, 29 January 2012 at 16:25:00 UTC, Chad J wrote:
> Hey guys,
>
> I know this is a bit late given the deprecation of D1 and all, 
> but why did we name the D2 compiler dmd instead of dmd2?
>
> It's rather annoyed me when trying to work with multiple D 
> projects of mixed kind in the same environment.  Using the same 
> compiler name for two different programming languages seems 
> like a Bad Idea.
>
> - Chad

I suspect the reason is because the two languages aren't really 
meant to co-exist together. D2 and D1 are just different versions 
of D. It's like C++11 and C++03, it's *not* like C++ and C, which 
are different languages.