Where's exp(), log(), sin(), cos()? He did the bare minimum amount of work and left all the interesting functionality out. We have relatively fast ways of dealing with these in IEEE754, but I see no equivalent here.
I really don't want to rehash the arguments that applied 30 years ago, as they do today. Decimal floating point is good for some things, but to be considered the "only number type in the next generation of programming languages" is laughable.
I really don't want to rehash the arguments that applied 30 years ago, as they do today. Decimal floating point is good for some things, but to be considered the "only number type in the next generation of programming languages" is laughable.