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
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