On Mon, 9 Aug 2004 17:13, John Summerfield wrote: > bob parker wrote: > >On Mon, 9 Aug 2004 13:20, John Summerfield wrote: > >>As for the money, I learned to write financial applications in COBOL. > >>Whoops, it's extremely rusty. > >>mony PIC S9(11v3) COMP-3. > >>and in PL/1 > >>money fixed dec(11,3). > > > >COBOL, such a beutiful language! If a total overflows the destination > > field it just chops off the most significant digit. > > http://flashpages.prodigy.net/bettys1/qoc/onlinemanual.html
I looked it up for old time's sake. Sickening isn't it. Cheers Bob -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
