Re: PL/I outflanks Fortran

[those who know me have no need of my name <not-a-real-address@usa.net>]

in comp.lang.ada i read:
>"those who know me have no need of my name" <not-a-real-address@usa.net>
>wrote in message news:m1d6kn8334.gnus@usa.net...

>> >            Put (Item => D, Base => 16);
>> >
>> >     where the base parameter can be any value from 2 through 16
>>
>> seems fairly restrictive given the well defined conventions for bases
>> through 36.
>
>Have you actually had the need to read / write numbers in any base in the
>range 17 .. 36? For that matter, how many non-recreational software projects
>really have a need for a number base other than 2, 8, 10, or 16? (Pretty
>soon, I should be able to drop 8 from that list).

i'm not sure it matters whether i find it useful, after all you find only 4
out of 15 to be useful.  i.e., that there is little common use for e.g base
9 did not prevent the language designers from providing for it, so why not
the entire well defined range?

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