Hi Walter,

Apologies for the late reply.

Walter Bright <walter@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.

BTW, it is unfortunate that Digital Mars’ compiler back-end denies² its
users essential freedoms to help each other (through redistribution), to
adjust the code as they see fit, and to gain collective control of it
and improve it.  I hope you will reconsider this choice and choose a
free software license.

Thanks,
Ludo’.

¹ <http://www.gnu.org/software/dmd/#history> (I added this section
  recently.)

² As per <http://wiki.dlang.org/Compilers>.