[COFF] COBOL.

[Harald Arnesen]

Dave Horsfall [14.04.2020 00:24]:

> I have no plans to move to the US :-)  To this day "ADD A TO B GIVING C 
> COMPUTATIONAL ROUNDED" still leaves me cold.

No one I know (I programmed COBOL at a couple of jobs in the 80s) ever
actually wrote that in COBOL. "COMPUTE C = A + B" is valid, and the
"COMPUTATIONAL ROUNDED" is handled by USAGE and PICTURE clauses in the
DATA DIVISION.

I still dabble with GNU Cobol now and then.
-- 
Hilsen Harald