On Tue, Jun 22, 2010 at 2:00 PM, Daniel Gagnon <redalas...@gmail.com> wrote:

> If we base the decision on the average guy not writing high performance
> numeric apps, then we should also base it on the fact that he does not need
> more than a long in 99% of cases either as Rich points out. And longs are a
> much simpler concept to grok.


+1. The average guy understands that "big numbers" are something special.
The average guy also want to have close to native speed when he first tries
a language, not * 10 or * 20 that.

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