[rescue] Help with SunFire V240 Server

Andrew Jones andrew at jones.ec
Tue Apr 9 09:55:47 CDT 2013


On 04/07/2013 08:10 PM, Cory Smelosky wrote:
>>
>>> Java doesn't allow unsigned integers at all to avoid just this
>>> problem.
>>
>>     Interpreted and B&D languages need not apply [for employment].
>> This is the real world, not academia.  Try telling somebody doing
>> embedded work that they should give up unsigned data-types.
>
> Try telling that to the current wave of javascript fans. ;)

Javascript went a step further: rather than banning unsigned types, the 
language has no integers *at all*.

All math is done with floating point, with all the exciting implications 
you may imagine.


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