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		pjmlp 3 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: TigerBeetle and Synadia pledge $512k to the Zig So... Languages have been higher level abstractions since Fortran, there is a reason why ISO C targets an abstract machine model.

pklausler 2 days ago [–]

And so have the various editions of standard Fortran. In fact, ISO Fortran’s abstract floating-point model is so old now that it’s confusing, since it’s basically IEEE-754 but off by one in its exponents.

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