Path: csiph.com!v102.xanadu-bbs.net!xanadu-bbs.net!feeder.erje.net!eu.feeder.erje.net!news.szaf.org!news.gnuher.de!rz.uni-karlsruhe.de!feed.news.schlund.de!schlund.de!news.online.de!not-for-mail From: Bernd Paysan Newsgroups: comp.lang.forth Subject: Re: PICK changed from 1-based to 0-based? Date: Mon, 13 Jan 2014 03:36:59 +0100 Organization: 1&1 Internet AG Lines: 20 Message-ID: References: <7xvby8f6md.fsf@ruckus.brouhaha.com> <52bff96e$0$2861$e4fe514c@news2.news.xs4all.nl> <52c05cfd$0$2919$e4fe514c@news2.news.xs4all.nl> <52c42581$0$2875$e4fe514c@news2.news.xs4all.nl> <2014Jan3.152213@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at> <2014Jan7.151358@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at> <2014Jan10.181937@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at> <1qo8uejj1212s$.zd0lsgcmks1o.dlg@40tude.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: p5dcd64eb.dip0.t-ipconnect.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="ISO-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit X-Trace: online.de 1389580619 24747 93.205.100.235 (13 Jan 2014 02:36:59 GMT) X-Complaints-To: abuse@einsundeins.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 13 Jan 2014 02:36:59 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: KNode/4.11.3 Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.forth:27848 Bernd Paysan wrote: > If of all choices the worst is taken, I suspect that it was a democratic > choice ;-). This is because democracy is the worst form of all > governments, but we don't know any better (well, worst choice syndrome > again ;-). BTW "Democracy": Wikipedia has a nice list of languages and whether they have dividend or divisor as sign base for modulos: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modulo_operation This list shows that we are very far from a consensus on this topic. But at least this list shows that most languages have found a consensus within their community, even C and C++ finally did that. -- Bernd Paysan "If you want it done right, you have to do it yourself" http://bernd-paysan.de/