Re: why still use C?

"Mike Cowlishaw" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

>P.J. Plauger wrote:
>> Who's talking about removing features? Standard C has *never* promised
>> that floating-point arithmetic will be done in binary. And it's damned
>> hard to write a program that can determine whether it is.
>
>This one should be quite reliable:
>
>  #include <stdio.h>
>  int main(void) {
>    double x = 0.1;
>    if (x*8 != x+x+x+x+x+x+x+x)
>      printf("Binary");
>    else
>      printf("Decimal");
>    return 0;
>  }

You are kidding, right?

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