Andrei's list of barriers to D adoption

[Russel Winder via Digitalmars-d]

On Mon, 2016-06-06 at 21:35 +0000, DLearner via Digitalmars-d wrote:
> 
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> IBM PL/I had a _FIXED DECIMAL_ datatype, many many years ago.
> Could it be used as a model?

That will almost certainly be because IBM hardware has a decimal ALU as
well as a binary ALU. 

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