From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: skogtun at gmail.com (Harald Arnesen) Date: Tue, 14 Apr 2020 11:24:17 +0200 Subject: [COFF] COBOL. In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <8884c03d-acd0-14bd-ca60-ec269e3a3812@gmail.com> 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