gwyn@smoke.ARPA (Doug Gwyn ) (08/27/88)
In article <4203@adobe.COM> burgett@steel.UUCP (Michael Burgett) writes: >In light of 1 & 2... where's the beef? C is doing what it is designed to do, ... The essential point is, C's ability to support numerical applications could be significantly improved without adverse effect on its use for systems work. In fact, X3J11 has adopted some of these improvements, e.g. allowing single- precision intermediate computation instead of forcing it to be done in double.