On Sun, Oct 25, 2009 at 03:47:24PM +0530, Girish Venkatachalam wrote: > > No, you can define functions in wcalc as well. > > > > Check out. I clearly saw that in the man page as well as the online help. > > Okay. I have to backtrack here. > > The rich set of inbuilt functions can surely give bc(1) hang its head > in shame and make it irrelevant.
I sometimes wonder why you really need to voice such strong opinions, as "hang its head in shame"... it does make me smile though! :-) As for bc's defense, bc -l on GNU bc does provide a fair set of useful functions predefined. That apart, bc conforms to the POSIX draft standard, so it conforms to a predefined (old) standard, which is one of the reasons it doesn't do too much, but works well at what it is supposed to do... Thanks for your tips. I find them useful. Kumar -- Kumar Appaiah _______________________________________________ To unsubscribe, email [email protected] with "unsubscribe <password> <address>" in the subject or body of the message. http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc
