You are a stupid programmer, you can't have that

[bachmeier]

On Monday, 9 August 2021 at 17:03:57 UTC, H. S. Teoh wrote:

> Floating-point, if anything, is *more* complex and comes with 
> more pitfalls than signed/unsigned mistakes. Worse yet, it 
> *appears* to behave like what most people imagine real numbers 
> to behave, but in fact doesn't, which makes mistakes more 
> likely, and also harder to catch because they usually only crop 
> up in special corner cases while generally appearing to work 
> correctly.

There's an important difference though. Signed/unsigned mistakes 
are a choice the programming language designer makes - Walter 
made his choice and Gosling made a different choice. You're more 
or less stuck with the limitations of floating point.