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Date: Sat, 05 Jun 2010 09:47:48 +0200
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On 6/4/10 9:23 PM, Fritz Wuehler wrote:

> Ada is better than COBOL except in one way. It is easier to write reports
> (the bulk of financial processing) and define decimal (money) fields in
> COBOL than Ada. It *could* have been used in financial processing, but
> COBOL had two decades and a half of a head start.

How do Interfaces.COBOL and Ada.Text_IO.Editing fit in here?