[Info-vax] Programming languages on VMS

[Arne Vajhøj]

On 1/24/2018 11:11 AM, John Reagan wrote:
> I wouldn't do currency manipulation in anything but COBOL.  I've seen
> too many people get it wrong when trying to do it in another
> language.

Cobol was a bit unique in that regard 25+ years ago.

But today most likely alternative languages has types for that:
Java BigDecimal, C# decimal, VB.NET Decimal, C++ various fixed
point classes, Python supposedly have a decimal, even PHP has
money libraries.

Arne