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From: barmar@think.COM (Barry Margolin)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.modula2,comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: "for" loops (was Re: C++ vs. Modula2)
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Date: 30 Jan 89 20:32:51 GMT
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In article <1381@X.UUCP> john@frog.UUCP (John Woods) writes:
]In article <19579@agate.BERKELEY.EDU>, bowles@eris.berkeley.edu (Jeff A. Bowles) writes:
]>    If I had a nickel for every time, in Fortran,
]>    that I needed a loop that ran from 0.0 to 1.0 by 0.1 (or the like)
]...you'd be broke.  You NEVER need a loop that runs from 0.0 to 1.0 by 0.1.
]1/10 is a repeating fraction in binary

Just because Fortran can't do it doesn't mean that he doesn't NEED it;
it just means he can't GET it.  Since the real world mostly works in
decimal, I imagine that the need is frequent.  Luckily, there are
well-known and easy ways around this problem.


Barry Margolin
Thinking Machines Corp.

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