What Russ Cox thinks about simplicity
Software engineer and a long-time technical lead of the Go programming language; author of plan9port and of the research.swtch.com essays.
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Our readingFloating-point printing and parsing algorithms are converging toward an optimal solution.
Their wordsGiven the simplicity and speed of the algorithms in this post and the increasingly small deltas between successive algorithms, perhaps we are nearing an optimal solution.
↗Floating-Point Printing and Parsing Can Be Simple And Fastresearch.swtch.com