Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Path: utzoo!henry
From: henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer)
Subject: Re: A Modest Proposal
Message-ID: <1988Feb2.123613.10933@utzoo.uucp>
Organization: U of Toronto Zoology
References: <3057@zeus.TEK.COM>
Date: Tue, 2-Feb-88 12:36:05 EST

> It would probably be best to remove floats and doubles from C to further
> emphasize the different uses of the two languages.  

The graphics community, among others, will rise up and strangle you if you
try this.  No, it ISN'T just the number-crunchers who use floating point.
That silly misconception has doomed more than one programming language to
remaining an academic toy (or at least, has contributed to said fate).
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