> The Digital Mars C compiler was started in 1982, and a lot of it still > survives > in the code base (library & compiler). > > The evolution of the human brain is not done by replacing structures with new > ones, but by putting new layers over the old ones and overriding them. Hence, > we > all have a notochord, and a dinosaur brain, etc. You can see that in the back > end code; the original design and structure is intact, it's just been layered > over. Maybe some day I should dig up NWC 1.0 and post it! > > The D front end, however, is radically different from the C front end.
If by some impossible way you could travel back in time to `82, could hardware support D if you would build it then?
