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From: rav@goanna.cs.rmit.edu.au (++           robin)
Subject: Re: Multiple reasons for failure of Ariane 5 (was: Re: Ariane 5 - not
 an exception?)
Date: 1996/08/11
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	dewar@cs.nyu.edu (Robert Dewar) writes:

	>Pascal Martin said

	>"It also remind us that languages don't want to die, even when it is long due.
	>Just consider COBOL :-))."

	>Actually in the case of COBOL, I think it is only with the advent of Ada 95
	>that there is a tenable alternative. The lack of fundamental facilities
	>(arithmetic and edited output) for high precision scaled decimal arithmetic
	>is a huge handicap in most other potential COBOL replacements.

---In 1966 or so, PL/I introduced scaled decimal arithmetic,
to provide facilities to equal and surpass COBOL.

   The decimal facilities extended to I/O, as well as
to English pounds, shillings, and pence.

   The scaled decimal I/O extends to simple I/O
as well as picture specifications.