Re:Introduction to the Pony programming language
by spooneybarger on Thursday May 31, 2018 @09:58AM
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It's an intersting philosophical conversation. Take floating point for example. I just fired up a Python interpreter and did:
>>> 0.3 * 3.0
0.8999999999999999
There's are a lot of areas of computer science that touch on these sorts of problems. And people love to do Wat! talks for all those fun edge cases where how computers work and how programming languages work run up against our expectations of what we expect to be correct.
>>> 0.3 * 3.0
0.8999999999999999
There's are a lot of areas of computer science that touch on these sorts of problems. And people love to do Wat! talks for all those fun edge cases where how computers work and how programming languages work run up against our expectations of what we expect to be correct.