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From: ka@cbosgd.UUCP (Kenneth Almquist)
Newsgroups: net.lang.c
Subject: Re: Accountants, Finance, Language
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Date: Wed, 5-Dec-84 17:33:18 EST
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Posted: Wed Dec  5 17:33:18 1984
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Reply-To: ka@hou3c.UUCP (Kenneth Almquist)
Organization: Bell Labs, Columbus
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One additional point:  not all machines have hardware support for BCD
arithmetic.  As it stands, the C language can be implemented *efficiently*
on a reasonably large number of machines.
				Kenneth Almquist