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Article #11062Re: Hardware Support for Numeric Algorithms
From: Robert Firth
Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1992 20:36
Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1992 20:36
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In article <1992Nov17.191938.16161@newshost.lanl.gov> jlg@cochiti.lanl.gov (J. Giles) writes: >I'm disappointed with Dr. Rubin. He left out such obvious ones as: >making a leading zero digit mean octal! Or, the fact that `/*' is >actually *ambiguous* in C because it's either a comment or a divide >followed by a dereference... Well, Mr Rubin only has 24 hours in his day, so don't expect him to list all the problems! What I'd like to add, though, is the comment that, in most of the situations where C got it wrong, its predecessor, BCPL, got it right... >He didn't mention that the distinction between bit-wise and logical >operators would not have been necessary if C had a LOGICAL data type. ... Including this one. Yes, even a typeless language can make the distinction, in a way that avoids surprise 99% of the time.
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Newsgroups: comp.arch Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!ukma!wupost!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!cis.ohio-state.edu!news.sei.cmu.edu!firth From: firth@sei.cmu.edu (Robert Firth) Subject: Re: Hardware Support for Numeric Algorithms Message-ID: <1992Nov17.203633.23955@sei.cmu.edu> Organization: Software Engineering Institute References: <id.6S0V.FKH@ferranti.com> <Bxv2t2.4FH@mentor.cc.purdue.edu> <1992Nov17.191938.16161@newshost.lanl.gov> Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1992 20:36:33 GMT Lines: 17