Re: [q-lang-users] Re: Newbie questions and comments

[Albert G. <Dr....@t-...>]

John Cowan wrote:
> If I were implementing a language from scratch today for anything but
> bare-metal programming, I'd probably leave off machine-size integers
> altogether, as you have done, and just have doubles and bignums, or even
> just doubles (like Perl and Lua).

Well, I really need the bignums for doing some number-theoretic stuff. 
Of course, you could reimplement them yourself using lists but this is 
inconvenient and slow.

I also thought about adding arbitrary precision floats, but if I take a 
look at the bigint vs. float performance, that's probably not a good 
idea. ;-)

Hey, I just noticed that you are the current maintainer of figlet! Good 
program. I've been playing around with it, to make a nicer sign-on 
message for the Q interpreter. Maybe in the next version. :)

Albert

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