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[Bill Gunshannon]

On 7/11/22 14:22, Simon Clubley wrote:
> On 2022-07-09, Arne Vajhøj <arne at vajhoej.dk> wrote:
>> On 7/9/2022 7:42 PM, Arne Vajhøj wrote:
>>> Which is not really surprising. In the 1980's nobody got fired
>>> for choosing IBM. Today nobody get fired (in a large conservative
>>> company) for choosing above stack.
>>
>> But some are more courageous.
>>
> 
> Would that be the Sir Humphrey definition of "courageous" ? :-)
> 
>> Chase and Lloyds have announced that they will be
>> replacing their current custom retail banking systems with
>> a standard cloud based system Vault developed by a fintech
>> startup and (supposedly) written in Go and Python.
>>
> 
> Well that should be interesting to follow.
> 
> Does Go even have the operations and support associated with money
> applications ?
> 
> For example, a quick look doesn't even reveal a decimal or BCD data type
> within Go itself. I've found both decimal and BCD packages for Go on
> GitHub which would also seem to suggest they are not part of Go itself.

We had that for C decades ago.  It still didn't make C a good
language for writing financial programs.  :-)

bill