• Peter (5/5) May 01 2004 Does any one know of any compiler design companies going to be introduci...
• Stephan Wienczny (5/13) May 01 2004 I have not heard that any company besides Digitalmars is going to
• Matthew (5/10) May 01 2004 Please post all new threads in the new group:
• Walter (7/13) May 02 2004 any D

Peter <Peter_member pathlink.com> writes:

Does any one know of any compiler design companies going to be introducing any D
compilers?  D looks very promising, is it known how many people are currently
making use of if?

In the usage of D, to write software, what restrictions are there on written
code (i.e. LGPL, GPL, or user decides)?

Stephan Wienczny <wienczny web.de> writes:

I have not heard that any company besides Digitalmars is going to 
introduce a D compiler. There is a comunity afford to create a GCC frontend.
There is no restriction on written code. You can write whatever, 
whenever. You decide which license you use.

Peter wrote:
 Does any one know of any compiler design companies going to be introducing any
D
 compilers?  D looks very promising, is it known how many people are currently
 making use of if?
 
 In the usage of D, to write software, what restrictions are there on written
 code (i.e. LGPL, GPL, or user decides)?
 
 

"Matthew" <matthew.hat stlsoft.dot.org> writes:

Please post all new threads in the new group:
news://news.digitalmars.com/digitalmars.D

"Peter" <Peter_member pathlink.com> wrote in message
news:c70c09$d8v$1 digitaldaemon.com...
 Does any one know of any compiler design companies going to be introducing any

D
 compilers?  D looks very promising, is it known how many people are currently
 making use of if?

 In the usage of D, to write software, what restrictions are there on written
 code (i.e. LGPL, GPL, or user decides)?

"Walter" <newshound digitalmars.com> writes:

"Peter" <Peter_member pathlink.com> wrote in message
news:c70c09$d8v$1 digitaldaemon.com...
 Does any one know of any compiler design companies going to be introducing

any D
 compilers?

There's Digital Mars, and there's Gnu D.

 D looks very promising, is it known how many people are currently
 making use of if?

My guess is 5 to 10 thousand, based on download rates.

 In the usage of D, to write software, what restrictions are there on

written
 code (i.e. LGPL, GPL, or user decides)?

User decides.