What is considered an "advanced" topic in Python?

[Grant Edwards]

On 2015-06-01, Mark Lawrence <breamoreboy at yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
> On 01/06/2015 18:02, Grant Edwards wrote:
>> On 2015-06-01, BartC <bc at freeuk.com> wrote:
>>
>>> At one time the choice was integer or floating point in many languages,
>>> unless you were specifically using a business language such as Cobol.
>>
>> My recollection in the early days of home computers is that many BASIC
>> implementations had BCD floating point instead of binary.  Back then
>> most CPUs had instructions specifcally for dealing with BCD
>> represented with 4-bits per digit.  Dunno if they still do, I can't
>> even remember the last time I did calculations in BCD.
>>
>>> I think the Sinclair computer barely had integer types so the choice
>>> was even narrower.
>
> Didn't Turbo C have compiler options to allow either BCD or fp?

Probably.  BCD support was pretty widespread in the Pascal compilers I
remember for DOS and CP/M.  Binary floating point didn't get very
popular until HW support for it became more common.

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