Python in the enterprise: Pros and cons

[Cameron Laird]

In article <mailman.1026391758.8994.python-list at python.org>,
Laura Creighton  <lac at strakt.com> wrote:
>Kim Petersen:
><snip>
>> 
>> Learning Python is straight forward, and doesn't scare of a COBOL 
>> programmer in the way that C++ or Java would.
>> 
>
>Is getting a float when they wanted a fixed-decimal a problem?
>
>Laura Creighton
>
>

It definitely is for many, I can report, and you're quite 
right to ask.

C++, Java, and Python can all define BCD classes, of course.
I'd rather not start now with a comparison of how their
respective overloading syntaxes make Cobolists (un)comfortable.
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