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Guess I was wrong. It’s fixed point, and also what you said — COBOL defaults to it. It still makes it easier to write software that need to do a lot of calculat
by hosh 4y ago
Guess I was wrong. It’s fixed point, and also what you said — COBOL defaults to it. It still makes it easier to write software that need to do a lot of calculations like that.
https://medium.com/the-technical-archaeologist/is-cobol-holding-you-hostage-with-math-5498c0eb428b https://medium.com/the-technical-archaeologist/is-cobol-hold...
- valenterry 4y agoYeah so that article also mentions something that I'd like to highlight: > Overall we assume that the reason so much of civil society runs on COBOL is a combination of inertia and shortsightedness. Well, there's more to it. Unfortunately, the better a programming language is, the easier it is to understand, change and also replace code. And in reverse, a bad language is therefore harder to replace and more likely to stay. Mind that I'm not saying that cobol is bad or was a bad choice. This is really a general thing, but I believe it applies to cobol at the current time.