Lie Ryan wrote:
Hendrik van Rooyen wrote:"Ulrich Eckhardt" <eck...aser.com> wrote:
Look back in history, and see how COBOL did it with the PICTURE - dead easy and easily understandable. Compared to that, even the C printf stuff and python's % are incomprehensible. - Hendrik
Yes. In COBOL, one writes
PICTURE $999,999,999.99
which is is way ahead of most of the later approaches.
John Nagle
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