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COBOL and $2,020,202.02

Author: jetrink

Score: 14

Comments: 5

Date: 2020-11-04 22:50:56

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akdhfasd wrote at 2020-11-04 23:04:34:

umm, aren't almost all COBOL programs on mainframes which would be EBCDIC and not ASCII.

cafard wrote at 2020-11-05 16:40:11:

My very limited experience with COBOL was on machines running AOS/VS and then some version of Solaris. Both used ASCII.

Peoplesoft, about 25 years ago, used a lot of COBOL, and as best I recall it mostly ran its back end on UNIX of one sort or another--that was how I encountered it on Solaris.

ncmncm wrote at 2020-11-05 05:53:51:

I.e, it is all ASCII's fault. But what would EBCDIC spaces look like in my electric bill?

cafard wrote at 2020-11-05 16:36:22:

He gave that also: you get 4s instead of 2s.

ncmncm wrote at 2020-11-05 20:57:25:

My mistake.