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Article #6477Re: Who uses BASIC these days (for serious application writing)
From: The Polar Bear
Date: Mon, 15 May 1989 18:42
Date: Mon, 15 May 1989 18:42
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>>skh writes: >>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 Integer arithmetic is often of insufficient range for financial applications. When you start doing programs for multi-national companies and governments, you start needing exponents. Admittedly, many companies DO use integer arithmetic to get around this. But many are unwilling. The extra programming involved is a real headache. skh
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