[followups set to clc] James Kanze said:
<snip> > You can't really do accounting in C, for example, Really? How strange. I've done loads of accounting in C. (But then I've always been good at doing the impossible.) > because it has neither a > built in decimal type (like Cobol), nor operator overloading on > user defined types (like C++). You don't need either of those to do accounting. > More generally, C is pretty bad for text handling as well. It's easily good enough, given that just about the first thing most people do in C is start work on their text-handling libraries. -- Richard Heathfield <http://www.cpax.org.uk> Email: -http://www. +rjh@ Google users: <http://www.cpax.org.uk/prg/writings/googly.php> "Usenet is a strange place" - dmr 29 July 1999 _______________________________________________ gnu-misc-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gnu-misc-discuss
