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From: dxf <dxforth@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: "The Best Programming Language for the End of the World"
Date: Sun, 13 Apr 2025 14:26:39 +1000
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On 12/04/2025 10:57 pm, Hans Bezemer wrote:
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> Look, *IF* we're adding a definition to the standard and *IF* we use the Wikipedia definition - I have no problem with that. Rather a bad definition than no definition (not saying the Wikipedia one is bad). But I don't fool myself into thinking that Wikipedia is *automatically* the most authoritative source.

FWIW "fixed-point notation" isn't defined either.