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From: mjs@hpfcso.FC.HP.COM (Marc Sabatella)
Newsgroups: comp.arch
Subject: Re: Compilers and efficiency
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Date: 17 Apr 91 16:23:00 GMT
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>no language he [ Herman Rubin, actually ]
>knew of had semantics for retrieving both the integer quotient and the
>remainder from a floating divide, the point being that both values are
>usually available from any implementation of floating point divide, but
>that the language stands in the way of getting them at the same time.

In addition to Common LISP, Forth also has this ability.  In fact, it comes
about as close to Herman's idealized "user definable syntax macro processor"
as any language I can think of.