In article , Daniel James wrote:
> ... I can't think of ANY programming language that
> does this as easily as COBOL (no, not even Algol68) ...

I posted too soon ... Ada (of course!) has library support that mimics
COBOL input and output formatting in the Text_IO.Editing package.

The Ada package is modelled on COBOL, but doesn't implement everything
you can do in COBOL (no internationalization, radix indication, or
parentheses to indicate negatives) but the using CR or DB to indicate a
negative is there ...

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Cheers,
 Daniel.

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