> 0x00D Have you ever written a flight simulator? After 4, or maybe even 5, decades, BCPL finally* got a floating point datatype. Why? Because Martin Richards

> 0x00D Have you ever written a flight simulator? After 4, or maybe even 5, decades, BCPL finally* got a floating point datatype. Why? Because Martin Richards was writing a flight simulator for the Raspberry Pi. > 0x046 ... Is it out-of-date? Specifically, 1969: https://dosfanboy.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/snoopy.gif?w=924 https://dosfanboy.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/s... > 0x04D ... Emacs "Eight Megabytes and [therefore] Continuously Swapping" > 0x072 Have you ever received a case of beer with your computer? IIRC, this would've been a Cray > 0x09F Ever been asked for a cookie? This was an early fairly benign virus, not the cookie inquiries we're all thinking of. EDIT: * https://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mr10/bcplman.pdf https://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mr10/bcplman.pdf says floats were added during 2014, so 47 years later.