Re: [9fans] hoc output format

[Ethan Grammatikidis <eekee57@fastmail.fm>]

On 13 May 2010, at 15:23, erik quanstrom wrote:

>>> echo 1 2 | hoc -e '{while(read(x) != 0)y += x' ^ $nl ^ ' print y,
>>> "\n"}'
>>
>> Maybe it makes a sense to add in hoc(1) expression delimiter like a
>> ';'?
>
> i don't use hoc very often.  i tend to use acid.  (!)
> this is because hoc won't do bit operations and doesn't
> accept hex.

Acid is nicer than dc or bc for this? I don't do much in the way of
programming calculations at present and usually resort to dc to do
them. Anything more convenient would be appreciated. :)

As for hoc, I'm mostly doing floating-point work where presentation is
irrelevant, so it's quite useful for me, but too often I find myself
preferring to use one of those silly graphical calculator applications
just to cut down on the visual noise.

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