COBOL and $2,020,202.02

[jetrink]

https://bigdanzblog.wordpress.com/2020/11/03/cobol-and-2020202-02/

[ncmncm]

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

[cafard → ncmncm]

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

[ncmncm → cafard]

My mistake.

[akdhfasd]

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

[cafard → akdhfasd]

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.