From: Rick DeNatale Date: 2006-10-15T10:11:14+09:00 Subject: Re: Speaking of COBOL ... On 10/14/06, John W. Kennedy wrote: > Matt Lawrence wrote: > > Don't dismiss all of the ideas in COBOL so quickly. For decades it has > > been the only mainstream language to do decimal arithmatic. > > PL/I, RPG, and Ada from Ada 95 on. Not to mention quite a few implementations of SQL. Certainly a mainstream language albeit not a full programming language. -- Rick DeNatale My blog on Ruby http://talklikeaduck.denhaven2.com/