On Saturday, 3 February 2018 at 15:47:59 UTC, Ali wrote:
Out of curiosity
What is the history between dmd and symantec
I was able to find few things online
I know that there once was a company called zorland, which
later becamse
zortech
Zortech, created c/c++ compilers
Symantec tookover zortech, to get into the compiler business
Walter Albright, was part of Zortech (not clear if he was the
founder or an employee)
But this is what I was able to find ends
How was dmd started in Symantec, did they sell a D compiler for
a while, did they use it internally as a competitive advantage,
what was Symantec plans for D?
Just curious .. if Walter care to share, or if someone else
knows more than I do, please share
I found this link
https://dlang.org/blog/2017/10/25/dmd-windows-and-c/
And I think those few lined quoted below answers one of my
question, How did Symantec have any rights to the dmd backend
"When a new programming language is born these days, it’s not
uncommon for its tooling to be built on top of an existing
toolchain"
"So it was a no-brainer to make use of his existing tools and
compiler backend and just focus on making a new frontend for DMD."
"Finally, Symantec had the legal rights to the existing backend,
which meant their license would apply to DMD."
Some people had the impression that D started as a closed source
project( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16270937 )
I believe this proves this perception wrong
