Re: Why Java's math expression (power) is so inconvenient and error prone?

Luc The Perverse wrote:
"Arne Vajhøj" <arne@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:454802e3$0$49209$14726298@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
For example, just think of the sillyness that we have thousands if not
millions of programmers writing business applications that involve
transactions, data sources, databases, and many small data entities.
Java is very unsuitable for those applications because it does not
natively support any of those things, they must all be implemented as
classes. They all have to be encoded as method calls. This wastes many
man years everyday and uncounted cost due to increased errors and hard
to understand code. Did you ever try to discuss a domain problem with
your customer together with the Java code?
I am not aware og any mainstream languages that has support for those.

Didn't Cobol?

Only for CODASYL databases (i.e. IDMS) and via a preprocessor which made these statements look like standard COBOL.

COBOL 85 didn't have native support for any of these things or a preprocessor. The nearest it came was the COPY statement, which is just "include" with some limited name substitution.

The current language specification doesn't extend the language beyond COBOL 85 in any of these areas.


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