16 Feb
2022
16 Feb
'22
5:51 a.m.
I do a ton of stuff in bc, it works well because when I get an answer
I didn't expect, I can scroll backward and see where I screwed up.
Nice writeup, Doug, I wish I had met her, she sounds like a super
substantial person.
On Tue, Feb 15, 2022 at 06:43:27PM -0500, Jim Capp wrote:
Ditto on bc, in Linux.
> On Feb 15, 2022, at 6:36 PM, Steve Nickolas <usotsuki(a)buric.co> wrote:
>
> ???On Tue, 15 Feb 2022, Douglas McIlroy wrote:
>
>> First came "dc", an unlimited-precision desk calculator,
>> which is still a Unix staple 45 years on. Building on dc,
>> she would later make "bc", which made unlimited precision
>> available in familiar programming-language notation and became
>> the interface of choice to dc.
>
> In the form of GNU/NetBSD bc, I use bc(1) to this day as my tool of choice for quick
calculations.
>
> -uso.
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