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> That's my point. The mathematical operations are not hard (even the "fancy" ones like the trig functions). Formatting a number to be displayed is also not har
by JadeNB 2y ago
> That's my point. The mathematical operations are not hard (even the "fancy" ones like the trig functions). Formatting a number to be displayed is also not hard (again, those $100 calculators do it just fine).
Right, and that's my point: if all you want is a rock-solid computational platform, then you can use, for example, `bc`. (That's what I do.) I assume that Apple assumes that their users want something fancier than that, and it's there, with the fanciness of a shiny user interface on a less-exercised code path, that the bugs will inevitably come.
- dTal 2y ago'bc' was first released literally half a century ago. If that is still the state of the art, I think it is absolutely fair to sound the alarm that something is VERY wrong with our modern software development practices. We shouldn't have to choose between "modern GUI" and "works". (For what it's worth, Qalculate destroys both bc and the Mac calculator app in both command line and GUI categories, so making working software isn't entirely a lost art.)