From: "Geo" 

"Antti Kurenniemi"  wrote in
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> > ok but how does a scripting language do these sort of functions?
>
> Check out this site for example:
http://www.frick-cpa.com/tvom/TVOM_lead.asp

Awesome!

But I was saying that if you implement a class in C so that you now have a
new function, when they do this in ASP (create a new function) isn't it
usually part of some dll?

> Complex schmomplex. Annyity calculations are far from complex. The reason
> for "sort" (or anything similar) existing in many languages
as built-in
(or
> in some core library) is that it's a real pain to re-invent the algorithm
> every time you need to sort something.

Really? One of the first programs we learned to write in C++ was a bubblesort.

> I think I can write 10 or so
> different sorting algorithms in ten minutes, but still I prefer to use
> built-in functions if possible because it feels stupid to write the same
> sorting code for the millionth time.

Exactly how I think, and why I was suggesting that built in functions for
things like PV would be done in a dll.

> No, probably not better. By all means, use the external DLL if possible,
and
> if it's MS provided stuff I think it's safe to assume it's of reasonable
> quality and contains no hidden "format everything" code.

That would be a really bad assumption . But it's homemade not from
MS so I have to assume it's not safe anyway, the advantage to homemade is
that it's unlikely a hacker would know anything about it so they would have
to spend hours messing with my specific server to figure out how to hack it
as opposed to hacking a popular dll.

Geo.

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