Re: Decimal Arith in DCL was(RE: Floating point arithmetic support in DCL) in DCL) in DCL)
From: Richard B. Gilbert (rgilbert88_at_comcast.net)
Date: 01/03/04
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Date: Fri, 02 Jan 2004 20:26:42 -0500
Yes, commercial calculations involve money and accountants care about
the pennies, no matter how many billions are involved. I wouldn't use
Fortran, C, or DCL for money calculations. If I wanted to convert one
binary floating point format to another, I don't think I'd want to use
Ada for the job. :-)
For DCL, I think I'd be happy with the equivalent of the little four
function promotional giveaway calculators.
Larry Kilgallen wrote:
>In article <NDEMLKKEBOIFBMJLCECIIEGGCJAA.tom@kednos.com>, "Tom Linden" <tom@kednos.com> writes:
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>>< -----Original Message-----
>>< From: Richard B. Gilbert [mailto:rgilbert88@comcast.net]
>>< Sent: Thursday, January 01, 2004 5:42 PM
>>< To: Info-VAX@Mvb.Saic.Com
>>< Subject: Re: Decimal Arith in DCL was(RE: Floating point arithmetic
>>< support in DCL) in DCL) in DCL)
>><
>><
>>< all right, decimal arithmetic instead of floating. With the possible
>>< exception of a COBOL course I took thirty years ago, I don't think I've
>>< ever used decimal arithmetic!! Neither Fortran nor C support the data
>>< type or the operations.
>>
>>That is true, but the world of commerce uses exclusively decimal arithmetic,
>>which is why they use cobol and PL/I to such an extent.
>>
>>
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>And why, when Ada was specified leading up to 1983 (quite recently as
>languages go) fixed point arithmetic was part of the definition.
>
>When Fortran was developed, there was not a long history of Cobol to
>consider. By the time Ada came along, there were both Cobol and PL/I.
>I shall refrain from commenting regarding C (this time :-).
>
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