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

[David Froble]

Simon Clubley wrote:
> 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 ?

No