Andrei's list of barriers to D adoption

[Russel Winder via Digitalmars-d]

On Mon, 2016-06-06 at 00:01 -0700, Walter Bright via Digitalmars-d
wrote:
> On 6/5/2016 11:38 PM, rikki cattermole wrote:
> > On 06/06/2016 6:29 PM, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
> > > On 6/6/16 6:17 AM, Andre Pany wrote:
> > > > to be usable for companies which want to create economic
> > > > software,
> > > > in my opinion D lacks std.decimal.
> > > 
> > > Do C, C++, Java, Go, or Rust have a standard decimal type? --
> > > Andrei
> 
> Apparently there's a spec: http://speleotrove.com/decimal/decarith.ht
> ml

IBM have had hardware decimal numbers for about 50 years.

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