From: "Geo" 

"John Beckett"  wrote
in message news:4178e2cc.15036661{at}216.144.1.254...

> C++ uses the C philosophy that if the hardware can do it, then the
> language should be able to call it. So, since most hardware can handle
> single-precision and double-precision floating point numbers, the language
> should handle both.

Ok, that's a logical philosophy.

> If you ever wanted to work with arrays of (say) 100 million floating point
> numbers, you might be glad you can specify float (4 bytes in VC) rather
> than double (8 bytes).

Yeah I can see that too, but there is other stuff that bothers me about the
language. For example there are times when you have to say something is
=2.0 instead of =2 but when it cout's a double number with no output
specification the default is to just output 2 not 2.0. It's kinda like the
machine doesn't have to play by the same rules the programmer has to play
by..

Geo.

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