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Re: Debian GnuCash packages orphaned



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



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