[OT] The Usual Arithmetic Confusions

[Elronnd]

On Friday, 4 February 2022 at 23:25:14 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
> As I observed before, there is no solution. Just different 
> problems. It's best to stick with a scheme that has 
> well-understood issues and works best with the common CPU 
> architectures.

I think the anecdote regarding Gosling demonstrates that these 
issues are not well understood.