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		haberman on Feb 5, 2014 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: So you want to write your own language? > You'll spend much more time just trying to figure out how to convert floating point values to strings. I should hope not, since the source code to printf() should have pretty much the complete answer to that!

WalterBright on Feb 6, 2014 [–]

It may not have a license that is compatible with your needs.

And yes, I did have to do my own float => string implementation.

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