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From: robert_dewar@my-dejanews.com
Subject: Re: Ada vs C++ vs Java
Date: 1999/01/24
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In article <78agrm$9jp$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com>,
  adam@irvine.com wrote:
> In article <m3d847sjjp.fsf@mheaney.ni.net>,
>   Matthew Heaney <matthew_heaney@acm.org> wrote:
>
> > Ada and Java are the only mainstream languages that
> > have built-in support for currency. . . .
>
> I have to dispute this.  COBOL has always had support for
> currency; <<rest of joke skipped :-)>>

Actually the interesting thing here is that only COBOL and
Ada 95 have support for currency computations. It is indeed
suprising that this support is missing from Java, but then
Java was intended for small scale embedded applications!


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