Is Cobol holding you hostage with Math?
The statement about Decimal being an import is a garbage, misleading statement. Decimal IS PART OF THE STANDARD LIBRARY!!!! It might not be in the global context, but that is a far cry from having to install an external library which this article makes it seem like.<p>Also, performance wise COBOL might be faster on a single machine, but good like trying to scale it out. Plus, a distributed architecture can make it easier to deploy software and hardware upgrades since you can generally take out a few nodes without bringing down the whole system.<p>I’m not saying all this code should be rewritten. If you have some code out in the wild that works, you should always weigh carefully the risks in terms of cost and potential new bugs before doing a rewrite. However, lack of fixed point is a lousy excuse to not upgrade.