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Subject: Re: dmd D Programming Language compiler
Date: Thu, 28 Jan 2016 11:37:48 +0100
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Hello,

Walter Bright <walter@digitalmars.com> skribis:

> On 3/17/2015 10:25 AM, Ludovic Court=C3=A8s 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=E2=80=99s dmd has been around since ~2003=C2=B9.
>>
>> Changing names is obviously an annoyance, technically and otherwise.
>> We=E2=80=99re not opposed to the idea, but that would take a bit more di=
scussion
>> 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=C2=A0dmd:

  https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/guix-devel/2016-01/msg00958.html

The old web page is still there but will vanish soon.

Ludo=E2=80=99.