Re: Is it time to legitimise REAL*8 etc?

In article <2008062716090875249-dannagle@verizonnet>,
Dan Nagle <dannagle@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

So you want to build into the language
a hardware dependency for the sake of the simplest of programs?
That strikes me as a big step backwards
for the very least gain.

Note that the scheme that Fortran now uses was proven by PL/I to be
capable of building in hardware dependencies for no reason --
programmers asked for what ended up being 36 bit variables when 32
would have worked most of the time. This code wasn't portable when
32-bit hardware became the standard.

-- greg


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