Re: Natural keys vs Aritficial Keys
From: toby <toby_at_telegraphics.com.au>
Date: Sat, 23 May 2009 00:38:07 -0700 (PDT)
Message-ID: <fd7de239-2856-44ef-a14d-8d05df2106d2_at_k2g2000yql.googlegroups.com>
Date: Sat, 23 May 2009 00:38:07 -0700 (PDT)
Message-ID: <fd7de239-2856-44ef-a14d-8d05df2106d2_at_k2g2000yql.googlegroups.com>
On May 22, 11:31 pm, paul c <toledobythe..._at_oohay.ac> wrote:
> toby wrote:
>
> ...
>
> > If expressing exact rationals is what you want, then that is trivially
> > done using integer arithmetic - as is fixed point decimal. Hardware
> > decimals, which essentially died with the VAX, don't help you express
> > rationals.
> > ...
>
> VAX died for other reasons, not that one.
There was no implication of causation.
> One I can remember is DPL
> which stood for "Dennis' Programming Language". Probably the Beaver was
> into it too.
Received on Sat May 23 2009 - 09:38:07 CEST