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Re: Qbasic

From jmfbahciv <See.above@aol.com>
Newsgroups alt.folklore.computers
Subject Re: Qbasic
Date 2016-02-16 13:43 +0000
Organization "Have EDDT, will travel"
Message-ID <PM00052BE32A447276@aca40675.ipt.aol.com> (permalink)
References (8 earlier) <n93sqq$ug7$3@dont-email.me> <n9tfr911t66@news3.newsguy.com> <468779aa-46a1-4b28-b6b0-bd03750b9089@googlegroups.com> <wKydnfc7-q4dV1_LnZ2dnUU78aWdnZ2d@giganews.com> <q07bpc-son.ln1@sambook.reistad.name>

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Morten Reistad wrote:
> In article <wKydnfc7-q4dV1_LnZ2dnUU78aWdnZ2d@giganews.com>,
> Andrew Swallow  <am.swallow@btinternet.com> wrote:
>>On 16/02/2016 04:49, hancock4@bbs.cpcn.com wrote:
>>> On Monday, February 15, 2016 at 4:27:37 PM UTC-5, Charlie Gibbs wrote:
>>>
>>>> I'm always somewhat perplexed by this fascination with floating point.
>>>> Sure, there are applications where it's needed - but many commercial
>>>> shops have little or no use for it.  In my entire career I can count
>>>> the number of times I've used floating point on the fingers of one hand -
>>>> and this includes stuff I'm working on right now.
>>>
>>> FWIW, our S/360-40 turned out to have floating point on it.  We didn't
>>> even know until someone tried to run a job on it, and it worked.
>>>
>>> Anyway, likewise, I never had the need to use floating point once I
>>> got out of college.  However, most of my employers had research
>>> or engineering groups who did use Fortran for their work, and I
>>> presume that means the computer had to have floating point to support
>>> the Fortran, unless everything was done as an Integer, which I doubt.
>>> (In Fortran, all 'real' variables are floating point, right?)
>>>
>>> However, admittedly I don't think the researchers where I worked were
>>> doing heavy-duty number crunching.  Much of the time they were just
>>> doing Fortran because they knew it (almost everybody took it in college)
>>> and it suited their needs better than COBOL.
>>>
>>
>>COBOL found calculating sin, cos, tan and fast Fourier transforms difficult.
>
> No, it is just cumbersome, not difficult. COMP-3 and COMPUTE should
> help a lot, plus some external libraries doing the trig functions
> and fft's (in some other language, e.g. C).

But it wasn't simple to call other languages' libraries with COBOL.
The calling sequences were dissimilar; the OTS of each lanugage
was a segment.  It wasn't until much later that two OTS might
be able to reside in one user's address sapce.  Also languages
usually were bought separately so the calls had to occur on systems
which had both installed.

/BAH

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                Re: Qbasic Dave Garland <dave.garland@wizinfo.com> - 2016-02-20 13:47 -0600
                Re: Qbasic "Osmium" <r124c4u102@comcast.net> - 2016-02-20 14:21 -0600
                Re: Qbasic Dave Garland <dave.garland@wizinfo.com> - 2016-02-20 18:06 -0600
                Re: Qbasic Charlie Gibbs <cgibbs@kltpzyxm.invalid> - 2016-02-20 18:57 +0000
                Re: Qbasic Dave Garland <dave.garland@wizinfo.com> - 2016-02-20 14:02 -0600
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                Re: Qbasic scott@slp53.sl.home (Scott Lurndal) - 2016-02-18 14:17 +0000
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                Re: Qbasic Peter Flass <peter_flass@yahoo.com> - 2016-02-17 18:41 -0700
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