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Date: Thu, 28 Jan 2016 18:22:35 -0800
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Thank you!

On 1/28/2016 2:37 AM, Ludovic Courtès wrote:
> Hello,
>
> Walter Bright <walter@digitalmars.com> skribis:
>
>> On 3/17/2015 10:25 AM, Ludovic Courtès wrote:
>>> 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.
>> 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’.
>
>