An interview with Larry Wall (LinuxVoice)

Posted Jul 19, 2015 4:29 UTC (Sun) by Cyberax (✭ supporter ✭, #52523)
In reply to: An interview with Larry Wall (LinuxVoice) by raiph
Parent article: An interview with Larry Wall (LinuxVoice)

> where "right" is defined as what the correct basic math result would be
Let's see, basic math says that 1/10 number doesn't exist. Every child knows that it's 0.00011(0011) and thus can't be written precisely inside a finite number of digits.

So no, Perl 6 doesn't get them right. Python (and C, Haskell, Rust, Go, ...) get them right.

An interview with Larry Wall (LinuxVoice)

Posted Jul 19, 2015 21:46 UTC (Sun) by raiph (guest, #89283) [Link] (2 responses)

> basic math says that 1/10 number doesn't exist.

Would you object if I tweeted that?

An interview with Larry Wall (LinuxVoice)

Posted Jul 20, 2015 6:27 UTC (Mon) by Cyberax (✭ supporter ✭, #52523) [Link]

No, feel free to tweet it.

An interview with Larry Wall (LinuxVoice)

Posted Jul 20, 2015 6:36 UTC (Mon) by rsidd (subscriber, #2582) [Link]

If you were honest you would tweet the next sentence too (and a link to this thread).