"Rainer Deyke" <rain...@eldwood.com> wrote in message news:i4pju0$1pj...@digitalmars.com... > On 8/21/2010 15:18, Nick Sabalausky wrote: >> All good points, but one problem with moving DMD's official source from >> C++ >> to D is it would make it difficult to port DMD to new platforms. Nearly >> every platform under then sun has a C++ compiler, but not so much for D >> compilers. > > Why would that matter? Why would you want to compile the compiler for a > platform, on that platform? >
To use that platform to compile something.
