On Sunday 20 February 2011 01:20:34 Walter Bright wrote: > Jonathan M Davis wrote: > > Regardless, I'm glad that I don't generally have to do much in the way of > > math- centric programming. > > Why not? I enjoyed it.
There's way too much to worry about. I don't _want_ to have to be worrying about rounding error and that sort of thing. I generally want to do whatever calculations I need to do for a particular task and be done with it. Math doesn't interest me enough for me to want to deal with it more than I have to to solve a particular problem. I find the fact that you have to worry about losing precision with floating point values and that they can't even represent all of the values in their range horrific. It's a fact of life, and you have to deal with it, but it sure isn't pretty. - Jonathan M Davis
