Re: Indices starting from non-1 (Was: Killa: a scripting language ...)

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Subject: Re: Indices starting from non-1 (Was: Killa: a scripting language ...)
From: Luiz Henrique de Figueiredo <lhf@...>
Date: Thu, 28 Feb 2013 20:32:02 -0300

> Could someone give me some pointers as to why languages "standardized" on
> floating point math?

My guess is that hardware provided it first and languages followed, led
by Fortan. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Floating_point#History for
instance.

References:
- Indices starting from non-1 (Was: Killa: a scripting language ...), Dirk Laurie
- Re: Indices starting from non-1 (Was: Killa: a scripting language ...), Egor Skriptunoff
- Re: Indices starting from non-1 (Was: Killa: a scripting language ...), Jorge
- Re: Indices starting from non-1 (Was: Killa: a scripting language ...), Christopher Berardi
- Re: Indices starting from non-1 (Was: Killa: a scripting language ...), joao lobato

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