Why don't other programming languages have ranges?

[Mike James]

"Walter Bright" <newshound2 at digitalmars.com> wrote in message 
news:i31qr6$4ma$1 at digitalmars.com...
> 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.
>
> 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 for that and is used to fine tune the design.

Sometimes it gets complicated... :-)

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