Running 2.1 on Virtual PC
Dear Euphorians
By way of introduction:
I started out with Euphoria in Australia when it was at version 1.3. I was doing
a conversion of databases and liked the string slicing. I was also looking for
my personal holy grail programming language (you know the kind -- 5GL syntax but
outputs tiny .COMs and .EXEs). Euphoria sort of delivered, sort of didn't. But I
got the job done, filed the sources and forgot about Euphoria for a few years.
Now here I am in Pakistan messing with Euphoria again this time for various
office automation projects.
Now to the problem:
What is the cosine of zero? One, right?. That's what QBASIC says on the NT.
That's what EX says on the NT.
However, in Virtual PC, on my Power Macintosh 8500/150 at work and my Umax clone
at home running MSDOS 6.21 and 6.22 respectively, EX says that the cosine of
zero is zero. And yet, QBASIC in the very same environment says that the cosine
of zero is one.
I stumbled over this one when I ran sanity.ex. EX on the NT is sane. EX on
Virtual PC is insane.
I do Euphoria development in Virtual PC because I don't have a PC to fool with.
And I'd rather not use the NT machine as its the network server and doesn't have
a comfy chair in front.
Is there are solution?
Sincerely,
Bruce M. Axtens.
Language Project.
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