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I pity all you benighted knaves who still labor with bounded-precision integers. Lisp has tried to show you the True Way for decades now, but you have not list
by ScottBurson 15y ago
I pity all you benighted knaves who still labor with bounded-precision integers. Lisp has tried to show you the True Way for decades now, but you have not listened! Unbounded-precision integers would free you from your chains!
(Obviously tongue-in-cheek... mostly... :-)
- zokier 15y agoSome[1] have listened. [1] http://gmplib.org/ http://gmplib.org/
- marshray 15y agoIf Giuseppe Peano had not handed down to us unbounded precision integers, it would have been necessary for John McCarthy to invent them. Why? To count all those freakin parentheses! HAHAHAHAHAA!
- adobriyan 15y agoIt isn't bounded-precision per se that is the problem. Bounded precision by default is. Add absence of unbounded precision integers in a language and non-fixed sizes of existing integer types and now it is a proper problem.