Why don't other programming languages have ranges?

[Walter Bright]

BCS wrote:
>> I once had a fire hydrant installed on my property. The city required
>> an engineering analysis, which ran to quite a stack of paper. After
>> approval, the workers came by to install it. They never looked at the
>> analysis, or even the drawings, they just dug up the water main and
>> stuck a hydrant on it with a specialized tool they had. Done in an
>> hour or so.
> I'd almost bet that buried somewhere in the fine print of the 
> "engineering analysis" was the assertion "the standard way works" or the 
> same things in 10 times the words.


It was painfully obvious that this was nothing more than a money-making scheme 
for the water utility. It colluded with the city to get those regs written, so 
they could literally quintuple the cost of a hydrant install and one had no 
choice but pay.