WTF ?

[Dominic Mitchell]

On Wed, Jan 10, 2007 at 02:45:08PM +0000, Adrian Howard wrote:
> 
> On 10 Jan 2007, at 14:30, Simon Cozens wrote:
> 
> >Sue Spence:
> >>This is a FAQ from the dawn of computer science.
> >
> >And we still haven't fixed it so that computers work the way  
> >everyone expects,
> >instead focussing all our energies on trying to fix the  
> >expectations. Bloody
> >typical, really. Automatic casting to rationals wouldn't be *that*  
> >hard.
> 
> Like Ruby[1], Lisp, Pop-11...

I'd hesitate to say nice things about Ruby's arithmetic.  :-)

  http://www.oreillynet.com/onlamp/blog/2006/12/silently_discarding_informatio.html

> Adrian
> 
> [1] Okay - you have to ask it to first

-Dom