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From: erik quanstrom <quanstro@labs.coraid.com>
To: 9fans@9fans.net
Subject: Re: [9fans] hoc output format
Date: Thu, 13 May 2010 11:37:56 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <7d5303cd369e3eba912180cd3008ddf5@coraid.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTimOiU62A_f6RatbWsE1VR9Xtwrbe-FLk2aO7uQa@mail.gmail.com>

> I normally use acid for interactive use, but for scripts bc is great,
> supports hex,
> has C like syntax, can do floating point and it has a big precision.

doesn't do bit shifting, masking and whatnot.

if acid were to grace stderr with its prompt, it would
be easy to use in a scripty sort of way, were it not for
acid libraries' habit of printing their names, anyway.

- erik



  reply	other threads:[~2010-05-13 15:37 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-05-12 10:24 Rudolf Sykora
2010-05-12 10:41 ` Alexander Sychev
2010-05-12 18:06   ` Akshat Kumar
2010-05-13  7:51     ` Alexander Sychev
2010-05-13 13:24       ` erik quanstrom
2010-05-13 14:06         ` Alexander Sychev
2010-05-13 14:23           ` erik quanstrom
2010-05-13 15:04             ` Ethan Grammatikidis
2010-05-13 15:09             ` Gorka Guardiola
2010-05-13 15:37               ` erik quanstrom [this message]
2010-05-13 15:16             ` roger peppe
2010-05-13 15:31               ` erik quanstrom
2010-05-13 15:53                 ` roger peppe
2010-05-13 16:06                   ` erik quanstrom
2010-05-13 16:16                     ` roger peppe
2010-05-13 15:54               ` Ethan Grammatikidis
2010-05-13 16:08                 ` roger peppe
2010-05-13 15:20             ` Rudolf Sykora

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