Hi, Sammy is wondering (for years) how unix/linux users do simple calculations.
Many people write their own calculator language - in the tradition of hoc. Anyone who actually enters in the code for hoc will discover something quite interesting. Other people use languages like Nickle (http://nickle.org/); I typically use haskell and in the past, I used ocaml and further in the past, I used sml - still my favorite. Another approach is to use a spreadsheet. You can compute recursive functions using !. My favorite, for "simple" cacluations, is to compute an approximate answer and to do so, I don't generally need anything except a sense of the scale of the numbers. Shlomo _______________________________________________ Linux-il mailing list Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il
