A Modest Proposal

[Henry Spencer]

> It would probably be best to remove floats and doubles from C to further
> emphasize the different uses of the two languages.  

The graphics community, among others, will rise up and strangle you if you
try this.  No, it ISN'T just the number-crunchers who use floating point.
That silly misconception has doomed more than one programming language to
remaining an academic toy (or at least, has contributed to said fate).
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