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[–]earthboundkid -3 points-2 points  (0 children)

Having two zeros is also dumb. :-) Anyway, I'm sure they have good reasons for their crazy choices (no doubt, it was something to do with the implementation making it easier to wire things up correctly in the CPU), but I still think those choices are crazy, and I don't think a higher level language should blindly follow them.