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Re: polyglot programming, Recent history of vi

From Lawrence D’Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid>
Newsgroups alt.folklore.computers, comp.lang.misc
Subject Re: polyglot programming, Recent history of vi
Date 2025-12-19 21:00 +0000
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References (3 earlier) <10hs727$2uevb$1@dont-email.me> <10ht2d5$1tj7$2@gal.iecc.com> <mqf5poFp0j4U3@mid.individual.net> <ZgE0R.242580$y7S9.53505@fx15.iad> <10i0i0k$6l6e$1@dont-email.me>

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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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Re: polyglot programming, Recent history of vi Lawrence D’Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2025-12-19 21:00 +0000

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