Re: Why no Complex Arithmetic ?

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From: John Strohm
Date: Wed, 27 Mar 1996 06:28

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Richard Pitre wrote:
>Why leave out complex numbers and complex
>transcendental functions?

Because Oberon is a systems programming language, not a number-crunching
language.

If you wanna crunch complex numbers with complex transcendental functions,
and you don't want to code it yourself, you need to be coding in FORTRAN. 
This is what FORTRAN was designed to do.

Use the right tool for the right job.

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