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Re:Oak: A more portable alternative to C, powered by Brainfu... by jsd1982 on Sunday July 26, 2020 @03:04PM (#23959320)
> Every instruction operates on a memory tape. This tape is essentially a static array of double-precision floats.

Why doubles? I would think integers are the more primitive type.

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Re:Oak: A more portable alternative to C, powered by Brainfu... by undefuser on Monday July 27, 2020 @01:02AM (#23962371)
Probably because floats can represent ints, but not the other way around?
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