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A comment on Dennis Ritchie’s first C compiler (c. 1972). Parent comment

Re:Dennis Ritchie’s first C compiler (c. 1972) by kps on Thursday March 11, 2021 @09:58AM (#26424620)
(a) FORTRAN used ‘DOUBLE PRECISION’ since the '50s, so ‘double’ would be immediately obvious.

(b) Many important machines had word sizes that were not a multiple of 8.

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Re:Dennis Ritchie’s first C compiler (c. 1972) by TheRealKing on Saturday March 13, 2021 @12:48PM (#26448273)
Fortran has been using `int8`, `int16`, `int32`, `int64`, and `real32`, `real64`, `real128` kinds officially for at least 2 decades. `double precision` has been long declared obsolescent, although still supported by many compilers. Regarding types and kind, (modern) Fortran is tremendously more accurate and explicit about the kinds of types an values.
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