Walter Bright wrote:
bearophile wrote:
Walter Bright:
Yeah, I wrote a C++ compiler back in 1987. It compiled itself, too!
The hard work of implementing C++ correctly was just beginning,
though.
C'mon Walter, give them some credit, wish them some luck, I think
they will be able to compile a good percentage of Boost in less than
15 years ;-)
Given a solid C compiler, writing a reasonably compliant C++ compiler
takes an additional 10 man years, in the best of circumstances. More
reasonably, 20.
How many man years would you assume writing a full D compiler takes?
(Frontend starting from scratch, using an existing backend.)
