Re: Who uses BASIC these days (for serious application writing)

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From: Per Bothner
Date: Sat, 13 May 1989 19:47

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In article <960017@hpclskh.HP.COM> skh@hpclskh.HP.COM (The Polar Bear) writes:
>As for me, yes I write in BASIC, Pascal, and C.  For "quick and dirty" programs,
>I'll take BASIC any day.  I wouldn't use C for financial programs myself.
>Lack of support for fully accurate decimal arithmetic is a killer.

I've never understood why this is such a big problem.
Why cannot you just store dollars-and-cents as an
integer number of cents?
-- 
	--Per Bothner
Western Software Lab, Digital Equipment, 100 Hamilton Ave, Palo Alto CA 94301
bothner@wsl.dec.com ...!decwrl!bothner

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From: bothner@decwrl.dec.com (Per Bothner)
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Subject: Re: Who uses BASIC these days (for serious application writing)
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