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=-1.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_MSGID autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,d275ffeffdf83655 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Thread: 146b77,d275ffeffdf83655 X-Google-Attributes: gid146b77,public X-Google-Thread: f5d71,d275ffeffdf83655 X-Google-Attributes: gidf5d71,public X-Google-Thread: 109fba,d275ffeffdf83655 X-Google-Attributes: gid109fba,public From: jerry@jvdsys.stuyts.nl (Jerry van Dijk) Subject: Re: Ada vs C++ vs Java Date: 1999/02/02 Message-ID: #1/1 X-Deja-AN: 439712180 References: <369C1F31.AE5AF7EF@concentric.net> <36B63FA0.AEEE3114@easystreet.com> Organization: * JerryWare *, Leiden, Holland Followup-To: comp.lang.ada,comp.lang.c++,comp.vxworks,comp.lang.java Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada,comp.lang.c++,comp.vxworks,comp.lang.java Date: 1999-02-02T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: Al Christians (achrist@easystreet.com) wrote: : "Robert I. Eachus" wrote: : > : > But it is indeed very surprising that you have : > two choices when writing a financial applet in Java--use floating : > point and hope not to get bitten, or use scaled integer with : > hand-coded scaling... : What is more surprising is the Rogue Wave software package JMoney : for Java. It is the Java equivalent of their C++ money.h package. : With money.h, precision into the hundreds of digits is supported, : but JMoney only goes up to 15 decimal digits -- it looks like : JMoney is just a wrapper around a Java floating point. Even worse, the people working on such applications (be it in Java or C++, or Delphi, or ...) do not even seem to grap the significance. -- -- Jerry van Dijk | Leiden, Holland -- Team Ada | jdijk@acm.org -- see http://stad.dsl.nl/~jvandyk