[RFC] We need an ENTIER that does ceil, CENTIER?

[Jan Claeys]

On Sun, 2026-05-10 at 21:25 -0700, chris hermansen wrote:
> I don't know what anyone else thinks, but I cannot come up with a
> plausible explanation of why this one obviously French word ended up
> being used as the name for an operator in Algol 68.

The reason is simple: politics (French chauvinism is quite well-known).


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Jan Claeys

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