On Fri, 13 Mar 2020 12:41:02 +0000, Daniel James wrote:

> 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 ...

Interesting. I've never used Ada.


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