RE: Decimal Arith in DCL was(RE: Floating point arithmetic support in DCL) in DCL) in DCL)

From: Larry Kilgallen (Kilgallen_at_SpamCop.net)
Date: 01/02/04 

Date: 1 Jan 2004 21:39:11 -0600

In article <NDEMLKKEBOIFBMJLCECIIEGGCJAA.tom@kednos.com>, "Tom Linden" <tom@kednos.com> writes:
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> < -----Original Message-----
> < From: Richard B. Gilbert [mailto:rgilbert88@comcast.net]
> < Sent: Thursday, January 01, 2004 5:42 PM
> < To: Info-VAX@Mvb.Saic.Com
> < Subject: Re: Decimal Arith in DCL was(RE: Floating point arithmetic
> < support in DCL) in DCL) in DCL)
> <
> <
> < all right, decimal arithmetic instead of floating. With the possible
> < exception of a COBOL course I took thirty years ago, I don't think I've
> < ever used decimal arithmetic!! Neither Fortran nor C support the data
> < type or the operations.
>
> That is true, but the world of commerce uses exclusively decimal arithmetic,
> which is why they use cobol and PL/I to such an extent.

And why, when Ada was specified leading up to 1983 (quite recently as
languages go) fixed point arithmetic was part of the definition.

When Fortran was developed, there was not a long history of Cobol to
consider. By the time Ada came along, there were both Cobol and PL/I.
I shall refrain from commenting regarding C (this time :-).

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