[TUHS] Lorinda Cherry

Jim Capp jcapp at anteil.com
Wed Feb 16 09:43:27 AEST 2022


Ditto on bc, in Linux. 

> On Feb 15, 2022, at 6:36 PM, Steve Nickolas <usotsuki at buric.co> wrote:
> 
> On Tue, 15 Feb 2022, Douglas McIlroy wrote:
> 
>> First came "dc", an unlimited-precision desk calculator,
>> which is still a Unix staple 45 years on. Building on dc,
>> she would later make "bc", which made unlimited precision
>> available in familiar programming-language notation and became
>> the interface of choice to dc.
> 
> In the form of GNU/NetBSD bc, I use bc(1) to this day as my tool of choice for quick calculations.
> 
> -uso.



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