Other languages, C9X: FP98 Course

Richard Fateman
Computer Science Division, EECS Dep't
University of California at Berkeley

Abstract:

This section consists of draft notes on C9X, Modula-3, SANE, and other contemporary language standardization efforts and their access to floating-point facilities (modes, traps).

• Prerequisites
• What has to be standardized?
• Minutiae: ToMAHto or ToMAYto?
• Extending well-known functions
• Descriptive vs Prescriptive
• Designing the next language
  • Modula-3
  • Borneo
  • SANE
• Some philosophy
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