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MCPL's one of my influences[0] so that line's continuing. Dum spiro spero Richards wanted to build a flight simulator a while back, so he added floating[1] poi
by 082349872349872 3y ago
MCPL's one of my influences[0] so that line's continuing. Dum spiro spero
Richards wanted to build a flight simulator a while back, so he added floating[1] point. Richards 1 - Yaks 0: that yak got shorn.
[0] I guess I should ask Richards how much influence he got from Backus?
[1] would Moore have done it in fixed? or are there stability problems with that?
- moomin 2y agoStudents I knew who had him as a lecturer referred to it (derisively) as Martin’s Completely Perfect Language.
- 082349872349872 2y agoDoes that imply CPL was not Cambridge, nor yet Combined, but rather Christopher's Perfect Language? (the EE's of the time had not yet perfected their art sufficiently for CPL to have been viable for personal computing; does it work better now that we have GHz and GB?)