How does your programming language handle “minus zero” (-0.0)?

Re:How does your programming language handle “minus zero” (-... by abraae on Friday March 05, 2021 @01:49PM (#26360407)

For some reason many programmers love to hate technologies that are old.

Hate floats, love big decimals

Hate OOP, love functional

Hate RDBMS, love nosql

Hate html web pages, love SPA

In my opinion it's a confluence of influences.

1) the same social media attitudes poisoning society generally. "I've got an opinion, and it's worth just as much as yours". News flash - opinions are like arseholes, everyone has one.

2) Inexperience - devs who have only ever built chat apps and don't understand why relationships hence RDBMS are common and useful in line of business applications. Devs who have not tried to capture the water level in a tank or the voltage from a solar panel and don't get why floats are useful.

3) resume padding. nuff said

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Re:How does your programming language handle “minus zero” (-... by andrewflnr on Friday March 05, 2021 @04:54PM (#26362631)

Not disputing your other points, but functional programming is by most measures older than OOP. The FP hype now is definitely more a matter of rediscovering the wisdom of the past, and I think that's a good thing.

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Re:How does your programming language handle “minus zero” (-... by abraae on Friday March 05, 2021 @05:35PM (#26363117)

That's an excellent point.

Although to go down that road, schemaless databases preceded RDBMS by decades, and then were replaced for good reasons.

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