[Info-vax] Roadmap

[Dave Froble]

On 1/6/2019 4:46 PM, Phillip Helbig (undress to reply) wrote:
> In article <q0tseg$srm$1 at dont-email.me>, Dave Froble
> <davef at tsoft-inc.com> writes:
>
>> In business, one
>> does not use numbers to crunch some data, numbers are used to save data
>> for later retrieval.
>
> Depends on the business.
>
>> Performance usually is not an issue.
>
> In some businesses, it is a very big issue.
>

One can always declare the variables whatever one wants in the programs. 
  If no storage of the data is involved, then format doesn't really 
matter.  Use what is best.

But if you have historical data for the past 20 years, it won't be in 
T_FLOAT.

Or one could fork the programs, having a copy for each type of data, or 
differentiate inside a single program.  Then again, if you have 50+ 
programs using the data, well, the job does seem to grow to perhaps 
unmanageable proportions.

I don't see any easy answers.

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