zortech - symantec - digital mars

[Ali]

On Tuesday, 6 February 2018 at 03:07:02 UTC, rikki cattermole 
wrote:
> On 05/02/2018 5:07 PM, Ali wrote:
>> On Saturday, 3 February 2018 at 15:47:59 UTC, Ali wrote:
>>
>> Some people had the impression that D started as a closed 
>> source project( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16270937 )
>> I believe this proves this perception wrong
>
> The comment is correct, dmd was indeed closed source for a good 
> number of years.
>
> I believe it was Brad (from my hazy memory) who when joined got 
> it opened up (and had the bug tracker installed too).

yes, but, it seem it was closed source for pragmatic reasons, 
reusing the symantec C++ back-end assets, not because it was 
started as a closed source commercial language

like say eiffel