[Info-vax] Programming languages on VMS

[Bill Gunshannon]

On 02/01/2018 12:51 PM, DaveFroble wrote:
> 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.
> 

I "solved problems" with CTS on a Univac mainframe but I wouldn't
recommend it for programming a payroll system.  :-)

bill