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| Founders | Walter Bright |
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| Website | digitalmars |
Digital Mars is anAmericancomputer software company founded byWalter Bright and based inVienna, Virginia. It makesC,C++, andD compilers, and associated utilities such as anintegrated development environment (IDE) forWindows andMS-DOS, which Digital Mars calls an integrated development and debugging environment (IDDE).[1]
The compilers can be downloaded, free of charge, from Digital Mars's website.[2]Product names changed over time. The C compiler was first namedDatalight C compiler, then Zorland C, then Zortech C, then Digital Mars C/C++ compiler. The C++ compiler was first named Zortech C++, thenSymantec C++, then Digital Mars C++ (DMC++).
The company gained notice in the software development community for creating theD programming language. D resulted from Bright's frustration with the direction of the C++ language and from his experience implementing it.[citation needed]Digital Mars is also notable for having shipped the first commercial C++ compiler forWindows.[3]
In 2002, Digital Mars released DMDScript, anECMA-262-compliantJavaScript engine, written in D.[citation needed]
In 1988, Zortech was the first C++ compiler to ship forWindows.PC Magazine ran a graphics benchmark and reported that most executables produced by Zortech ran faster than executables produced byMicrosoft C 5.1 and byWatcom C 6.5.[3]Stanley B. Lippman wrote that Zortech was the first C++ compiler to implementreturn value optimization. Later, the C++ standard required this.[4]
In 2023,Mike Engelhardt released a new simulatorQSPICE, which uses this compiler on the backend to allow for C++ and Verilog authored behavioral simulation models to be compiled to native code and loaded by the simulation environment.[5][6]
In a February 1989 overview of optimizing C compilers,BYTE approved of Zortech C 1.07's $90 price, included IDE, andMicrosoft CodeView compatibility. The magazine reported that the software "lacks some of the features of those in the $400 range" but its code often benchmarked better.BYTE concluded that "Zortech does everything that a compiler has to do—at an attractive price".[7]
The first true C++ compiler for the PC
It was first implemented by Walter Bright in a version of his Zortech C++ compiler
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