On Thu, May 13, 2010 at 4:23 PM, erik quanstrom <quans...@labs.coraid.com> wrote: >> > echo 1 2 | hoc -e '{while(read(x) != 0)y += x' ^ $nl ^ ' print y, "\n"}' >> >> Maybe it makes a sense to add in hoc(1) expression delimiter like a ';'? > > i don't use hoc very often. i tend to use acid. (!) > this is because hoc won't do bit operations and doesn't > accept hex. > > i typically do programming calculations and floating point > just isn't the right way to do that. >
I normally use acid for interactive use, but for scripts bc is great, supports hex, has C like syntax, can do floating point and it has a big precision. -- - curiosity sKilled the cat