Why don't other programming languages have ranges?

[BCS]

Hello Walter,

> BCS wrote:
> 
>> Every engineering discipline I have any experience with gets a heck
>> of a lot closer to producing formal proofs of correctness than
>> programing.
>> 
> Mechanical engineering designs also tend to be a lot simpler than
> programs, although the environment they work in is far more complex.
> Modeling for the design analysis also takes a very simplified view of
> the actual design, justified by taking the worst case. For example,
> the strength calculations are done for the weakest cross section, and
> are not bothered with for the obviously stronger sections.

Now days they just jump to using finite element and compute everything.

> 
> Furthermore, after a while a good mechanical engineer develops a
> "feel" for things that is pretty darned accurate. Going through the
> analysis is a backup

No, the analysis is mandated, by code if not law.

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