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Re: Trimming priority:standard



On Fri, Sep 12, 2014 at 03:49:11PM +0200, Thorsten Glaser wrote:
> bc is the standard Unix calculator, normally a dc frontend,
> and used in *a lot* of scripts.

Is there any way of verifying or even reasonably estimating how common it is
used?  *Within* debian, sadly it's hard to ascertain via codesearch as 'bc' is
too short, but /bc => http://codesearch.debian.net/search?q=%2Fbc

I must admit I've never seen it used in 3rd party scripts in my entire career
as a sysadmin.

> And yes, bc is also the primary interactive calculator,
> for things beyond what $((…)) can do.

We've got python in priority:standard.


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