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From: Eli the Bearded <usenet-tag@qz.little-neck.ny.us>
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Subject: Re: unix acronyms -collecting a list?
Date: 19 May 1997 14:46:59 GMT
Organization: Some absurd concept
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Peter Smulders <P.J.M.Smulders@phys.rug.nl> wrote:
>Lawrence Cragg <Cragg@Inforamp.Net> wrote:
>> > In article <337A003F.6A7B@ncofsi.com>, jbodarky@ncofsi.com wrote:
>> > >bc = * I think i read somewhere that this is Berkeley Calculator, but
>> > > that doesn't make sense. ANY IDEAS?
Basic Calculator is what I have heard. It is a "friendly" front end to
the HP style dc (desk calculator). dc is a reverse polish notation
(postfix stack) calculator, bc is an infix calculator. Compare:
:r! echo "502 / 65 + 17 * 4 ^ 3" | bc
1095
:r! echo "502 65 / 4 3 ^ 17 * + p" | dc
1095
Both round to intergers by default.
>> Somewhere I've seen bc as a command meaning "beautify C" (I'm serious!)
You are thinking of the c beautifer.
>I don't doubt your seriousness, but the command you are thinking of
>is 'cb' not 'bc'. It is still around on HP-UX, although I would
>not recommend its use. It not only beautifies the layout but also
>leaves out parts of the code it considers redundant!
Heh. I tried it and didn't like it so I never noticed that. Of course,
I fed some really ugly code into it in the first place.
Elijah
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