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Date:      Wed, 13 Jan 2016 14:39:57 +0000
From:      RW <rwmaillists@googlemail.com>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: dc(1) bugs
Message-ID:  <20160113143957.3817341a@gumby.homeunix.com>
In-Reply-To: <20160113054734.GA75312@becker.bs.l>
References:  <0McVKy-1aajq60oIS-00Hgju@mail.gmx.com> <20160113054734.GA75312@becker.bs.l>

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On Wed, 13 Jan 2016 06:47:34 +0100
Bertram Scharpf wrote:


> I do not expect "dc" to be a well-tested tool. Probably
> 100k*more people use software like WordPress etc.
> 
> My way to do calculations is in Ruby, mostly by pipe or
> self-written commands in Vim. Surely there are similar ways
> to do such things using Perl or Python. If you really insist
> on "dc" you shouldn't be afraid of debugging that.
> 
> Let me propose to remove "dc" from the base system because
> fixing the bugs is too much work in respect to what
> installable tools provide nowadays.

I think what you are missing here is that dc and bc are part of the
POSIX standard.



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