alt Hacker NewsYou can't use BigDecimal either. There are libraries whose whole purpose is just to exactly reproduce COBOL arithmetic, eg. the IBM Decimal Arithmetic Library.
You can't use BigDecimal either. There are libraries whose whole purpose is just to exactly reproduce COBOL arithmetic, eg. the IBM Decimal Arithmetic Library.
Wow, their Java code example [0] makes COBOL look elegant and terse by comparison.
[0] https://community.ibm.com/community/user/blogs/gregory-cerne...