[Info-vax] Which programming language would you like to see officially supported on VMS ?

[Jan-Erik Söderholm]

Den 2020-03-03 kl. 16:17, skrev Bill Gunshannon:
> On 3/3/20 3:06 AM, Jan-Erik Söderholm wrote:
>> Den 2020-03-03 kl. 08:48, skrev phow9917 at gmail.com:
>>
>>> In .au if you buy something for 99 cents
>>> (or 3 items at 33 cents)
>>> and pay with a dollar coin, you get no change!
>>>
>>
>> And if you use your card, you do pay $0.99, not?
>>
>> And if you buy 3 items at 40 cents? You still pay with that single
>> dollar coin, don't you?
>>
>> Over here, If I pay with my card, I pay the total down to the "last cent".
>> If one pay with cash (extremely rare today), the total is rounded to the
>> closest dollar using a correct half-dollar up/down rounding.
>>
>> (We do not use dollar/cent in Sweden, but just for the example).
>>
>> And, as I said, cash is very rare today, many shops doesn't even
>> accept cash anymore...
> 
> And I go to a diner for weekend breakfasts that only accepts cash.
> 
> Go figure.
> 
> bill
> 

Yes, that does happens over here also. In particular if the owner
want the money to go straigh into his own pockets. But those usually
will not stay in business for long.

There is no other real reason today to only accept cash than tax evasion.

But yes, different countries also have different development levels.
Some still uses "cheques" as payment. Not seen one in 20 years and the
banks has high fees to clear one today, in the $10 range per cheque.