== Quote from Walter Bright ([email protected])'s article > > Back in the 80's, the company I worked for did a project in a particular > dialect of pascal. The company making that dialect went bust, and the > company was left holding the bag with mission critical app. The compiler > was binary only, had bugs, required old hardware to run on, etc. > The dmd compiler source being available goes a very long way to > alleviating such problems.
Definitely. A big build team would want the compiler source code available to future-proof their investment. This obviously also supports the assertion that such teams aren't likely to upgrade compiler versions very often :-)
