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Subject: Re: Ada noob here! Is Ada widely used?
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> How do Interfaces.COBOL and Ada.Text_IO.Editing fit in here?

The support is there to do the work, it's just much harder and uglier to do
in Ada than COBOL. COBOL has built-in types for money  and editing (COMP-3)
but in Ada you have to have the Data Processing Annex and unfortunately
many toolchains don't offer it. Even with the support, it's painful to do
financial reporting on a large scale in Ada. COBOL wins here. It should, it
was designed specifically for this above all else.