[Info-vax] VMS Software Q1 '23 Update

[bill]

On 1/28/2023 10:39 PM, Dave Froble wrote:
> On 1/28/2023 8:28 PM, Scott Dorsey wrote:
>>> On 1/28/2023 6:19 PM, Johnny Billquist wrote:
>>>> On 2023-01-28 23:35, Arne Vajhøj wrote:
>>>>> On 1/28/2023 3:01 PM, Steven Schweda wrote:
>>>>>>> Consider the case where the numbers represent money.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>     Who cares what the numbers represent?  For example, if you 
>>>>>> round to
>>
>> One of the absolute FIRST things that I was told about floating point
>> variables in my first programming class was to NEVER use them to 
>> represent
>> money.
>> --scott
>>
> 
> What if you didn't have a choice?
> 
> RSTS/E V04b
> 
> Signed word integers
> Strings
> Single and double D-float
> 
> That's all there was ...
> 

No COBOL?  Sad as it sounds if RSTS BASIC was the only language
on the machine (I am pretty sure it was not) then one would have
to write routines, no matter how inefficient and time consuming,
to do the job right.  But floating point for money is never the
right answer.

bill