Timeline for References for the complexity of the COBOL language
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| Jan 8, 2023 at 19:56 | comment | added | supercat | Even on a machine without special decimal hardware, I would expect that the amount of time many COBOL programs spend performing digit-at-a-time arithmetic is less than would be required to convert groups of digits into binary integer values, perform arithmetic upon those, and then convert the results back to decimal digits. | |
| Dec 31, 2022 at 3:01 | history | answered | Rick Smith | CC BY-SA 4.0 |