From owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Wed Jan 13 14:40:03 2016 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@mailman.ysv.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) by mailman.ysv.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0BECAA80851 for ; Wed, 13 Jan 2016 14:40:03 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from rwmaillists@googlemail.com) Received: from mail-wm0-x22a.google.com (mail-wm0-x22a.google.com [IPv6:2a00:1450:400c:c09::22a]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 (128/128 bits)) (Client CN "smtp.gmail.com", Issuer "Google Internet Authority G2" (verified OK)) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 99A76176C for ; Wed, 13 Jan 2016 14:40:02 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from rwmaillists@googlemail.com) Received: by mail-wm0-x22a.google.com with SMTP id f206so297030011wmf.0 for ; Wed, 13 Jan 2016 06:40:02 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=googlemail.com; s=20120113; h=date:from:to:subject:message-id:in-reply-to:references:mime-version :content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=rSh9l4e6d67s0f1H3x6Oici4rIEhjvV9jyjJldy8rfM=; b=oF/MvOVdXXNfvTGaBqmhmILb6GkWwQN5AOo9v8F8Ckt/6uyRFukrsGbd+bgTRsjZpv ISw2EfVXDryfruM8loz/c5YIHO8DTTFrSzcvXtd1qJ9rdkZSGLasQ6fg4jpYILhCHcIA aBRTHQKyRrBce0sa4/gcH4oxEyenczk3Iw9MaLGXsfFbIKDx9XELU/w8kDMCcrh56Fz1 x3m/pPNCXgiWM2jvMNHjgY7ikORiTwMVMAtsPGuJP9P+SoOL6OII5jUQ2pdxeYw1zcQ+ XnRihp4UjJWQJeMBTcmOHyjuqyLtj3WQ68EjmOZBGY91btNPLXbWVSM7KTO2ikWmKO9o 0qTw== X-Google-DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=1e100.net; s=20130820; h=x-gm-message-state:date:from:to:subject:message-id:in-reply-to :references:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=rSh9l4e6d67s0f1H3x6Oici4rIEhjvV9jyjJldy8rfM=; b=OgRuv6slDo2y0LQUrqTC5bWXwgyWtrepol0lwXSxv9O9JW29zGSMemW0HlN4Gq8nCe zWdtwTll8WQPXXKhPn1AuUwYdQNu/FP47P8IejWQRCLL1vQtb7+jLZJOcmsnH8piSl1c sV2wuBnzSeirbYIahPHACmhDwcR0g0u++O2yNe7h12Q5wIo/DgMhiRSijaHDk2WXU5Q0 dLErqhUsZhPm/9j29PxWwbNTcYPcEK2jLr5y866MDf/OblT52Bq5LVFT/Yt/AhTE+vsf Nv91naHq4y+EIsVsB0Fe0G6F4jrjfhLJtQrpOjxGtRYhUVg9dLnnZGzlG8U8kgjTXGFv 0Saw== X-Gm-Message-State: ALoCoQnyBgWBenKbtUSpziO1KCbLNJN7bi0l37AM3gtGyAQSlVCAB2fYIggfk2KTnBadPNsJ1dm8paXoiNoj/hrBFRCOY9rq3Q== X-Received: by 10.194.90.243 with SMTP id bz19mr148203327wjb.128.1452696000976; Wed, 13 Jan 2016 06:40:00 -0800 (PST) Received: from gumby.homeunix.com ([2.216.221.176]) by smtp.gmail.com with ESMTPSA id wx2sm1740344wjc.27.2016.01.13.06.39.59 for (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Wed, 13 Jan 2016 06:39:59 -0800 (PST) Date: Wed, 13 Jan 2016 14:39:57 +0000 From: RW 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> X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.13.0 (GTK+ 2.24.29; amd64-portbld-freebsd10.2) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.20 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 13 Jan 2016 14:40:03 -0000 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.