"Rich Grise" wrote in message
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On Thu, 11 Oct 2007 10:23:27 -0400, robb wrote:
[snip]
even has 80-bit floats!

if you need 80 bit floats ....
I am surprised you guys are not using some functional
programming
language like scheme (lisp/Lambda calc variants) where your
reals
are number abstractions with no language or data type imposed
limit on the number size or precision and of course no
numerical
methods issues/errors from typical float/double data type
limitations
just wondering,

Loosely-typed or untyped data is a mare's nest of bugs just
waiting to happen.

Cheers!
Rich


I should have known better than to bring up software in hardware
group :}

perhaps you meant flexible or dynamic instead of loosely and un
typed ?

it is very strongly typed as there are a few predefined basic
prmitives and "everything" is a defined type even operators and
and functions are all user defined types (or library of other
users types) some say scalable

i am sure they said the same things about basic when it was first
introduced along with a host of other seemingly magical things
that illicited suspicion at first and then gave way to acceptance
and trust.

a scheme implementation is what ? basic with some datastructures
{stacks,lists,etc}

and look at that google reveals 'BIT' a scheme implementation
for microcontroller running in 4k ram and stored in 13k rom among
others

not trying to start any wars i was curious why hrdw engy types
still use basic as opposed to other very useful tools that exist
that have eliminated many problems associated with those old
tools,
robb