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Re:IBM introduces z15 mainframe by Retric on Sunday September 15, 2019 @11:38AM (#20977697)
It’s far more than just having a single data type.

COBOL was in effect designed for business use so fixed point arithmetic has a lot of support in the language, libraries, and tooling.

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Re:IBM introduces z15 mainframe by rbanffy on Sunday September 15, 2019 @04:50PM (#20979423)
One useful way of thinking of COBOL is as a DSL targeted at business operations.

Once you do that, it becomes clear Java is not exactly a competitor.

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