Timeline for Did the BCPL programming language support floats?
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| Apr 27, 2019 at 18:37 | comment | added | cup | When I used floats in BCPL, they were defined as 2-word vectors. There were routines to assign values, do arithmetic and print floats. The arithmetic was worked out in reverse polish before it was coded. It was pretty awful to use | |
| Apr 26, 2019 at 15:05 | history | answered | user | CC BY-SA 4.0 |