C needs BCD (ANSI People: Please Listen)

[Geoff Kuenning]

In article <162 at inset.UUCP> dave at inset.UUCP (Dave Lukes) writes:

>The ONLY useful thing to come out of the ANSI stuff is to make the float/double
>coercion optional (WOW !! and it's ONLY taken them a YEAR).

Harumph.  The *most* useful thing to come out of the ANSI stuff (and not
the only one) is the standardization of the "volatile" storage class.

>Apparently: Stroustrup told the committee about the stuff he was doing,
>and they (surprise, surprise) totally ignored it !!!

Of course.  ANSI stands for the American National Standards Institute.  Not
the American National Programming Language Development Institute.  C++ is
still totally experimental, unavailable, and _s_h_o_u_l_d not be considered
in the development of a standard.  ANSI has never invented a significant
new feature in a programming language and it has no business doing so.
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	Geoff Kuenning
	First Systems Corporation
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