Re: Java 7 features

Twisted wrote :
On Jul 31, 4:35 pm, Martin Gregorie <mar...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
Arne Vajhøj wrote:
~kurt wrote:
Arne Vajhøj <a...@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
It is much more common to have a modulus operator than a
power operator.

C, and its "descendants" are the only languages I have used that
didn't have
one.

C has a rather large family !

:-)

Pascal does not have a power operator either.

Nor does COBOL, which is odd considering its useful for compound
interest calculations.

That's the same language whose two-digit-year date type was
responsible for ~70% of Y2K bugs, so you may be expecting a bit too
much of it here. :)

Not really. COBOL can handle 4 digit years.

Y2K was caused by really expensive storage costs, where a 5MByte drive was HUGE. I remember things like excess-3 and packed-decimal to store numbers. Oh, and programmers thinking that their creations could not POSSIBLY be still in use after 20 years.

Um, yes, I know you were jesting, but some of the youngsters here may not know that...

--
Wojtek :-)


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