DMD Backend Long-term

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== Quote from Brad Roberts (braddr at slice-2.puremagic.com)'s article
> On Tue, 22 Jun 2010, Nick Sabalausky wrote:
> > Seems a weak reason. A programmer that's worried about infringing software
> > patents can't write anything more useful than "Hello World". I'm seriously
> > not convinced at all that it's even possible to write useful code that
> > doesn't technically infringe on some software patent. As a programmer,
> > either you accept the fact that what you do is inevitably going to trample
> > software patents, or you just simply don't be a programmer. That's all there
> > is.
> The world's not nearly that black and white.  There's a huge difference in
> infringment in an app you write for yourself vs an app that's very public.
> LLVM is somewhat closer to the latter end of the spectrum.
> I agree that excess paranoia isn't warranted, but neither is willful
> ignorance.

If we're really lucky, Bilski Vs. Kappos
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/In_re_Bilski) will send all the software patent
attorneys to the poorhouse next week and we can just start trampling freely.