D compiler as part of GCC

[Joel C. Salomon]

On 1/27/2010 5:56 PM, Ellery Newcomer wrote:
> On 01/27/2010 03:40 PM, Eldar Insafutdinov wrote:
>> Google's Go will be in GCC.  <http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc/2010-01/msg00500.html>.
> 
> I bet it helps that Go was originally implemented as a front-end to GCC

I’d thought the original compiler was based on Ken Thompson’s C compiler
for Plan 9.

—Joel Salomon