D beyond the specs

[Walter Bright]

On 3/17/2018 4:28 AM, Arjan wrote:
> On Friday, 16 March 2018 at 19:27:40 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
>> My old company's product, Zortech C++, was also very popular in Germany, 
>> England, and Japan. I don't know why.
> 
> And a certain spot in the Netherlands, because at the time it outperformed all 
> the others like Borland Watcom IBM/visual-age ms-visual-c++ and others at 
> compilation speed and most of the time in execution speed as well. Besides since 
> we used multiple compiler on our code base symantec/digitalmars often reported 
> violations were the other happily accepted the code (and produced wrong code) 
> And the incident response time from you was just marvelous, reported an issue, 
> next morning a fixed compiler version in the emailbox!
> 
> Beside that, I really appreciated the so called IDDE and accompanied srcs of 
> libs. It was imo much much better than VC++ at the time. Have used it for a very 
> long time even after Symantec ditched it. (borland f***** up theirs by forcing 
> the C++ builder upone us)
> 

Sounds a lot like D of today, too!

(Thanks for the kind words. I appreciate it!)