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[Walter Bright]

On 8/6/2019 7:23 PM, Mike Parker wrote:
> On Wednesday, 7 August 2019 at 00:36:19 UTC, Exil wrote:
>> On Tuesday, 6 August 2019 at 23:55:11 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
>>
>>> The imminent failure of Zortech C++ was also constantly predicted by pretty 
>>> much everyone, meanwhile Zortech was pretty successful.
>>
>> They weren't wrong, Zortech C++ doesn't exist anymore. While C++ is still 
>> going strong.
> 
> Zortech was bought by Symantec and they rebranded the compiler to Symantec C++. 
> It's now Digital Mars C++, still very much alive, and the backend was reused in 
> DMD.

Not only that, Zortech C++ is the reason C++ itself reached the tipping point 
and became mainstream.