Gregory Ewing <greg.ew...@canterbury.ac.nz>:
> Steve D'Aprano wrote:
>
>> If PIC is so great, why do no other languages have it?
>
> Something akin to it has turned up in other places, although usually
> in the guise of an output formatting facility rather than a way of
> describing how data is stored internally. For example, the PRINT USING
> found in some BASIC dialects.
You have the storage thing in SQL:
CHAR(4)
VARCHAR(256)
YEAR(2)
DECIMAL(5,2)
Marko
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