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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