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4. I once saw a colleague's function for significant figures in COBOL...

Sun Feb 16, 2014, 12:56 PM

Feb 2014

Filled about 5 pages of greenbar from a bandprinter. My version in VBA was about 5 lines of code.

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IT World: COBOL, like Star Trek, needs a new generation [View all] Recursion Jun 2013 OP

So does ForTran hootinholler Jun 2013 #1

FORTRAN has a firm base Fortinbras Armstrong Jul 2013 #2