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From:
Bryan C. Warnock
Date:
October 20, 2002 06:00
Subject:
Re: C# and Parrot
Message ID:
1035118777.11376.20.camel@wakko
On Sun, 2002-10-20 at 07:39, Leon Brocard wrote:
> Leon Brocard sent the following bits through the ether:
> 
> > It looks like the DotGNU weekly IRC meeting will be discussing
> > Parrot. Could be interesting:
> 
> It was quite interesting. I managed to make it to the early one and
> Dan to the later one. An "annotated and abridged chatlog" is available:
> http://dotgnu.info/pipermail/developers/2002-October/008380.html
> 
> It looks like we're going to need 8,16,32,64 bit types...

Interesting read.  Dan skimmed over this, but what do .NET (and JVM) doe
for floating point numbers?

Are we still targeting a middle ground for C?  (Enough to be able to
parse and handle structs natively, and possibly even make calls
natively?)


-- 
Bryan C. Warnock
bwarnock@(gtemail.net|raba.com)

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