On Tuesday, 6 February 2018 at 03:07:02 UTC, rikki cattermole
wrote:
On 05/02/2018 5:07 PM, Ali wrote:
On Saturday, 3 February 2018 at 15:47:59 UTC, Ali wrote:
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
The comment is correct, dmd was indeed closed source for a good
number of years.
I believe it was Brad (from my hazy memory) who when joined got
it opened up (and had the bug tracker installed too).
yes, but, it seem it was closed source for pragmatic reasons,
reusing the symantec C++ back-end assets, not because it was
started as a closed source commercial language
like say eiffel
