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| From | Lawrence D’Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> |
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| Newsgroups | alt.folklore.computers, comp.lang.misc |
| Subject | Re: polyglot programming, Recent history of vi |
| Date | 2025-12-19 21:00 +0000 |
| Organization | A noiseless patient Spider |
| Message-ID | <10i4ecl$1f2vl$3@dont-email.me> (permalink) |
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On Thu, 18 Dec 2025 09:37:23 +0000, David Wade wrote: > For Financial calculations COBOL is, I believe more capable than > FORTRAN. You have control over the precision. It will perform fixed > decimal arithmetic, it has a an "on size error" clause to detect under > and over flow. By those criteria, Python is even more capable. <https://docs.python.org/3/library/decimal.html>
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