Re: Minus-Hyphen, Numeric Negation and Subtraction
Re: Minus-Hyphen, Numeric Negation and Subtraction
- Subject: Re: Minus-Hyphen, Numeric Negation and Subtraction
- From: "Mark J. Reed" <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 5 Jun 2009 02:50:52 -0400
On Fri, Jun 5, 2009 at 1:46 AM, Mark J. Reed<email@hidden> wrote:
> It's true that the major proglangs that have infix exponentiation
> operators at all agree with your math teacher: Awk, Basic, Fortran,
> Lua, Pascal, Perl, Python, and Ruby all give -4. On the other hand,
> Microsoft Excel (and compatible spreadsheet programs) gives +4, as do
> the UNIX basic calculator program bc(1), the built-in arithmetic in
> the bash and Korn shells, and the Rexx programming language, So
> AppleScript is in the minority here, but hardly alone.
Add Algol-68 to Applescript's end of the tally.
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Mark J. Reed <email@hidden>
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