On 18.11.2019 03:21, Richard Stallman wrote: > [[[ To any NSA and FBI agents reading my email: please consider ]]] > [[[ whether defending the US Constitution against all enemies, ]]] > [[[ foreign or domestic, requires you to follow Snowden's example. ]]] > > > > I also don't think that shepherd is a better name, dmd far better > > > describes the intent Wolfgang and I had when we wrote and designed it. > > > It wasn’t our decision to rename dmd to shepherd. I liked “dmd” too. > > What was the reason to change it? Does anyone thing the new name > is better?
The reason is that the compiler for the D programming language is also called DMD. If I remember correctly, it's older than GNU DMD, so the courteous thing to do was change the name of GNU DMD. I think GNU Shepherd is a nice name. - Taylan
