[Info-vax] Programming languages on VMS

[DaveFroble]

seasoned_geek wrote:
> On Wednesday, January 24, 2018 at 1:36:14 PM UTC-6, Arne Vajhøj wrote:
>> On 1/24/2018 1:21 PM, Craig A. Berry wrote:
>>> On Wednesday, January 24, 2018 at 11:26:04 AM UTC-6, Bill Gunshannon wrote:
>>>> What data type of none-integer does
>>>> BASIC support that can do calculations with decimals without the
>>>> cumulative error common to floating point?
>>> Just a wild guess, but maybe the DECIMAL data type?
>>>
>>> $ help/library=basichelp data_types decimal
>>>
>>>
>>> DATA_TYPES
>>>
>>>    DECIMAL
>>>
>>>       The DECIMAL(d,s) data type keyword specifies  packed  decimal  data.   A
>>>       packed  decimal  value  has  a  specified  number  of  digits  (d) and a
>>>       specified decimal point position (s).
>> And VB.NET also got Decimal type.
>>
>> Arne
> 
> VB was and still is a wretched and unforgivable creation.

Why do you say this?  I've been able to solve a few problems with it.

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