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Article #1113Re: Aggressive Driving
From: ibhsffo
Date: Fri, 10 Jul 1998 00:00
Date: Fri, 10 Jul 1998 00:00
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Hackman wrote: > > Joel Garry wrote: > > > > On Thu, 09 Jul 1998 08:29:40 -0500, Hackman <@jump.nospam.net> wrote: > > >E. Faubion wrote: > > >> > > >> eta@my-dejanews.com (Eric Anderson) wrote: (snip) > > GWBASIC uses Microsoft storage for doubles and longs, and not IEEE and > yes, there is some GREAT rounding errors. > They *can* be programed around, but by the choice of language used I can > assure you that Earl didn't do this.... > > > Of course, with C, anything can happen, eh? I shudder to think what an > > unaudited physics program written by an amateur with no proper QA or > > "correct" (in the Orr sense) design in a language designed for writing > > operating systems rather than applications could have wrong. And that > > user guide sure didn't make me feel warm and fuzzy about it, either. > > > > hahaha 8;) I still would love to see the source... > > I wonder if Earl knows just what goes into the production of software Well you have me interested now Jack. Could you please write a program in the language of your choice that does the same as Earl's and then compare the results with his program and see what errors there are. Being the programmer you are this shouldn't take you more than a few minutes, and then we can see if Earl's program really doesn't work. HMG
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: fb1cb,a813ba40692ae7c2 X-Google-Attributes: gidfb1cb,public X-Google-Thread: 1038e3,a813ba40692ae7c2 X-Google-Attributes: gid1038e3,public X-Google-Thread: 1011e5,a813ba40692ae7c2 X-Google-Attributes: gid1011e5,public X-Google-Thread: 10001a,a813ba40692ae7c2 X-Google-Attributes: gid10001a,public X-Google-Thread: 10e16d,a813ba40692ae7c2 X-Google-Attributes: gid10e16d,public X-Google-Thread: f4d80,a813ba40692ae7c2 X-Google-Attributes: gidf4d80,public From: ibhsffo <ibhsffo@mci2000.com> Subject: Re: Aggressive Driving Date: 1998/07/10 Message-ID: <35A670DA.AE9CFDEE@mci2000.com> X-Deja-AN: 370294429 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit References: <359CD681.9E5E062B@compuserve.com> <359d283c.7205650@news.okc.oklahoma.net> <359DAC09.6EA0E1F9@pop.site1.csi.com> <359dd6b4.51876808@news.okc.oklahoma.net> <359E20C6.1994CEF@pop.site1.csi.com> <359e76ba.4452520@news.okc.oklahoma.net> <359EC7BF.FA272177@pop.site1.csi.com> <359f0fc2.2697674@news.okc.oklahoma.net> <35a12a3f.8850095@news.serv.net> <359faf34.2527736@news.okc.oklahoma.net> <35a0c4c6.9390102@news.serv.net> <35a01d16.30662362@news.okc.oklahoma.net> <35a03bb8.1605578@news.serv.net> <35a0560d.6425139@news.okc.oklahoma.net> <35A4C5C4.FB849E2A@jump.nospam.net> <slrn6qa5rs.jd5.joelga@pebble.org> <35A6055A.7D98EA9A@jump.nospam.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Organization: MCI2000 MIME-Version: 1.0 NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 10 Jul 1998 19:50:56 GMT Newsgroups: dc.driving,rec.autos.driving,misc.legal,alt.law-enforcement,seattle.general,ca.driving