Re: #perl.br calc - A Perl Shell

Perl, computing... hmm ;-) Compare these:

$ echo 'x=y=1.2; x+=1.1; x-=1.1; x; y; x==y' |bc |xargs echo
1.2 1.2 1
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$ perl -wle '$x=$y=1.2; $x+=1.1; $x-=1.1; $,=$"; print $x, $y, $x == $
+y'
1.2 1.2
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don't you love perl? ;-)

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Re^2: #perl.br calc - A Perl Shell by ambrus (Abbot) on Jun 01, 2006 at 09:02 UTC
As a quick calculator (especially with vector/matrix ops) I like the J programming language. It's not quite good as a real programming language IMO, but it's ideal for doing some quick numeric computations. GNU octave is good for the same purpose as well.	[reply]