[Info-vax] New VSI Roadmap (yipee!)

[Simon Clubley]

On 2015-03-02, <lists at openmailbox.org> <lists at openmailbox.org> wrote:
> On Mon, 02 Mar 2015 17:31:46 +0800
> Richard Maher via Info-vax <info-vax at rbnsn.com> wrote:
>
>> On 3/2/2015 11:09 AM, David Froble wrote:
>> >
>> > Regardless, what's a language doing, not having a rounding function?
>> 
>> Why is any serious commercial programmer implementing money as a 
>> floating-point datatype?
>
> Agreed 100%. This gets you a nice lawsuit in some of the places I worked.
>

I can't imagine ever using floating point in a new money handling
application these days given all the other options available.

What would be interesting is to find out, if David was implementing his
application from scratch today, would he still use floating point ?

Simon.

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