Why so many theoretical discussions when ...

[Christopher Wright]

Nick Sabalausky wrote:
> "Walter Bright" <newshound1 at digitalmars.com> wrote in message 
> news:g9a7eg$1k9b$3 at digitalmars.com...
>> BCS wrote:
>>> We agree on many things but when we can't change DMD all we have left is 
>>> to argue over the details (some of us think this is "fun")
>> You can always change gdc, which is based on dmd, to try things out.
> 
> Mucking around with GCC is an absolute mess (doubly true on windows). Not 
> that I'm disagreeing with you, though. FWIW, a D compiler written in a 
> better language (like D!) would be great for trying things out, but I 
> suppose that's just stating the obvious ;)  (BTW, What is LLVM written in? 
> C++, I assume? Haven't really had a chance to look into it yet.) 

LLVM is written in a tasteful subset of C++. That's how its writers put 
it, at least.