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From: Robert Dewar <robert_dewar@my-deja.com>
Subject: Re: Confusing language,
 was Re: Help help.. please.i am totaly new in ada programing
Date: 1999/11/11
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In article <80coqe$fjk$1@nntp3.atl.mindspring.net>,
  Richard D Riehle <laoXhai@ix.netcom.com> wrote:
> Even so, we could have coded a four digit year using two
> bytes of COMP-3 (packed decimal)

Well in many environments COMP-3 is forbidden because it is
implementation dependent. In any case if you allow COMP-3, then
you can fit a 2 digit year into a single byte. Remember that
core memory cost approximately 100,000 times as much in the
early days of COBOL programming as it does now! So how
eager would you be to free free to spend an extra 100K bytes
for each date you stored (you need to do that comparison to
get a feel for the cost impact).


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