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From: jwoehr@isis.cs.du.edu (Jack J. Woehr)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.forth
Subject: Re: General Purpose Forth
Summary: Floating Point Floats On!
Message-ID: <1991Mar21.152243.11780@isis.cs.du.edu>
Date: 21 Mar 91 15:22:43 GMT
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In article <17574@sdcc6.ucsd.edu> ir230@sdcc6.ucsd.edu (john wavrik) writes:
>

>who  actually think that floating point arithmetic has been  unavail-
>able  to Forth programmers for these many years. During the  past  11
>years  I have had access to floating point packages on various  Forth
>systems  -- and have not had to write one for myself. 

	Right on, Dr. John! Even our eentsy Vesta embedded control oriented
CPUs have floating point and transcendentals in ROM Forth ... Floating point
(which mostly I can live without) is here to stay in Forth, not because the
language prevents it or supports it, but because it ain't that big a deal
to implement in Forth.

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