From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=0.2 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_MSGID, REPLYTO_WITHOUT_TO_CC autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: fac41,b87849933931bc93 X-Google-Attributes: gidfac41,public X-Google-Thread: 109fba,b87849933931bc93 X-Google-Attributes: gid109fba,public X-Google-Thread: 103376,b87849933931bc93 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Thread: 1108a1,b87849933931bc93 X-Google-Attributes: gid1108a1,public X-Google-Thread: 114809,b87849933931bc93 X-Google-Attributes: gid114809,public From: donh@syd.csa.com.au (Don Harrison) Subject: Re: OO, C++, and something much better! Date: 1997/01/22 Message-ID: #1/1 X-Deja-AN: 211600186 sender: news@syd.csa.com.au x-nntp-posting-host: dev50 references: <5c4ita$3qs@mulga.cs.mu.OZ.AU> organization: CSC Australia, Sydney reply-to: donh@syd.csa.com.au newsgroups: comp.lang.eiffel,comp.lang.ada,comp.lang.c++,comp.lang.smalltalk,comp.object Date: 1997-01-22T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: Fergus Henderson writes: :I don't know how it got its start there, but I have heard that it got a :bit of a boost after the stockmarket crash in '87. Apparently the :volume of shares traded was very high, and many financial programs :failed, because the numbers involved were so large that they overflowed :various limits, but the Smalltalk programs kept running, because :Smalltalk quietly switches to using floating point arithmetic when :integer arithmetic overflows. That's a worry. :(Well, that's the rumour anyway. I :don't know how much truth there is to it.) I guess it won't be so much of a problem in the crash of 1997 as most hardware now uses 32 bits. :) Don. =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Don Harrison donh@syd.csa.com.au