Or it's vendors that don't care about correctness, like providing decimals by default and high performance floating point as an "optimized" option. Python did something like that by using bigints as a default for integers.
What would not have been true 30 years ago? I remember "real" fixed-point type built-in in Turbo Pascal and explicitly documented as suitable for money. Common Lisp has had first class fractions support since the start.
What would not have been true 30 years ago? I remember "real" fixed-point type built-in in Turbo Pascal and explicitly documented as suitable for money. Common Lisp has had first class fractions support since the start.