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Article #1205Why no Complex Arithmetic ?
From: Richard Pitre
Date: Tue, 26 Mar 1996 22:44
Date: Tue, 26 Mar 1996 22:44
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Why leave out complex numbers and complex transcendental functions? Maybe Oberon is slightly simpler without this but any programs that use complex arithmetic are automatically more complicated and less efficient without language support. I see no good argument for leaving complex arithmetic out of Oberon if you've already gone to the trouble to include floating point numbers. Why alienate so many people who desparately need good tools like this? If you don't think its a problem then its because you've never tried to do it. The readability goes to hell. richard
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!ra.nrl.navy.mil!usenet From: pitre@n5160d.nrl.navy.mil (Richard Pitre) Newsgroups: comp.lang.oberon Subject: Why no Complex Arithmetic ? Date: 26 Mar 1996 22:44:04 GMT Organization: Naval Research Laboratory Message-ID: <4j9rvk$pn2@ra.nrl.navy.mil> NNTP-Posting-Host: n5160d.nrl.navy.mil