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Re:An Interview with the Old Man of Floating-Point (1998) by an1sotropy on Sunday October 31, 2021 @04:42AM (#29055505)
Many things are possible in our imagination. I'm grateful that my actual world, today, we have working floating point.
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Re:An Interview with the Old Man of Floating-Point (1998) by andrepd on Sunday October 31, 2021 @08:17AM (#29056446)
Okay, I still don't get the purpose of your comment.

Imagine rust is being built and you reply

> Many things are possible in our imagination. I'm grateful in my actual world we have working BCPL.

:^)

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