Hello,
Walter Bright <wal...@digitalmars.com> skribis:
> On 3/17/2015 10:25 AM, Ludovic Courtès wrote:
>> Hi Walter,
>>
>> Apologies for the late reply.
>>
>> Walter Bright <wal...@digitalmars.com> skribis:
>>
>>> The D programming language compiler has been called dmd since about
>>> 2000 or so. In order to avoid confusion, may I request that the Gnu
>>> dmd ("Daemons-managing Daemon") change its acronym?
>> For the record, GNU’s dmd has been around since ~2003¹.
>>
>> Changing names is obviously an annoyance, technically and otherwise.
>> We’re not opposed to the idea, but that would take a bit more discussion
>> among developers.
>
> Thanks for considering this. I appreciate it.
Just to let you know: we have finally released a renamed version of what
used to be known as GNU dmd:
https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/guix-devel/2016-01/msg00958.html
The old web page is still there but will vanish soon.
Ludo’.
