Andrei's list of barriers to D adoption

[Russel Winder via Digitalmars-d]

On Mon, 2016-06-06 at 13:35 -0700, Walter Bright via Digitalmars-d
wrote:
> 
[…]
> What I've done, though I know that I won't convince any users of
> BigDecimal, is 
> use longs and have them represent pennies instead of dollars. Then
> they're all 
> exact to two places.

You are right, your use of integers (even 128-bit ones) will not
convince anyone doing anything finance other than household accounting.

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