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> Decimal IS PART OF THE STANDARD LIBRARY!!!!

It's not a builtin. If it's like the one place I've seen COBOL in, there's a lot of batch processing. When she talks about performance of the "import" statement, she's not kidding. Of course yes, that's a terrible architecture by modern standards, but now we're talking about more than replacing just COBOL.




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