Xref: utzoo comp.lang.c:26546 comp.software-eng:3043 Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!mcnc!rti!xyzzy!larrybud.rtp.dg.com!goudreau From: goudreau@larrybud.rtp.dg.com (Bob Goudreau) Newsgroups: comp.lang.c,comp.software-eng Subject: Re: Currency Quotes Message-ID: <803@xyzzy.UUCP> Date: 4 Mar 90 06:48:21 GMT References: <8224@hubcap.clemson.edu> <8223@hubcap.clemson.edu> Sender: usenet@xyzzy.UUCP Reply-To: goudreau@larrybud.rtp.dg.com (Bob Goudreau) Organization: Data General Corporation, Research Triangle Park, NC Lines: 32 In article <8224@hubcap.clemson.edu>, billwolf%hazel.cs.clemson.edu@hubcap.clemson.edu (William Thomas Wolfe, 2847 ) writes: > > From goudreau@larrybud.rtp.dg.com (Bob Goudreau): > >> your original complaint about > >> units(1), which must have embarassed you horribly when you found out > >> about floating (gasp!) currency exchange rates. > > > > [I replied:] Right. My self-managed IRA had a total return of > > 44.43% last year; how embarassing. Maybe I should stop watching > > the Nightly Business Report so often, huh? > > Oh, by the way, Bob, you'll be pleased to know that Reuters (which > supplies the Nightly Business Report with its market data, including > currency quotes) is delivering that market data using Ada software... > the introduction of Ada technology into Reuters was described at the > ACM SIGAda Tri-Ada '88 conference. Sorry you missed it!!! Say what? I was talking about your original criticism of units(1) for the way its manpage admitted that the program had no way of automatically updating its exchange-rate information in real-time. You came to the embarassingly stupid conclusion that this limitation was somehow a fault of the C programming language. But go ahead and defend that conclusion if you must.... ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Bob Goudreau +1 919 248 6231 Data General Corporation 62 Alexander Drive goudreau@dg-rtp.dg.com Research Triangle Park, NC 27709 ...!mcnc!rti!xyzzy!goudreau USA