From: fizzbintuesday@that-google-mail-domain.com   
      
   Robert Prins wrote:   
   >   
   > We're living in 2021, why write convoluted code when there are much   
   > better languages to do this? REXX (available for about every OS) can   
   > do it in one line, and if you only use Windoze, PowerShell would   
   > probably do it.   
      
   You can also do it with one line in a batch file like so:   
      
   call :GetStringLength   
      
   Everyone here knows other languages. We use batch when it's the best   
   choice.   
      
   If it's never the best choice for you, then you wouldn't have come here.   
      
   BTW REXX was included in OS/2 in 1993. I was an advocate. No one   
   listened. Since you emphasize that it's 2021 you probably should have   
   suggested Python.   
      
   And also, successive approximation isn't convoluted. It has a lot of   
   applications. There are successive approximation register chips that do   
   it in hardware for A/D conversion. My method was IMO very   
   straightforward and readable, and I'm a fan of Knuth's law, "A program   
   should be readable by humans first and computers second."   
      
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