Path: utzoo!dciem!chk
From: chk@dciem.dciem.dnd.ca (C. Harald Koch)
Newsgroups: comp.sources.bugs
Subject: Re: Bug in csh (history, "!a%100s"). Report and Fix.
Summary: Bad K&R! Bad!
Keywords: misuse printf bug
Message-ID: <1900@dciem.dciem.dnd.ca>
Date: 5 Jul 89 14:19:37 GMT
References: <113630@sun.Eng.Sun.COM>
Reply-To: chk@dretor.dciem.dnd.ca (C. Harald Koch)
Followup-To: /dev/null
Organization: NTT Systems, Inc., Toronto, Canada
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In article <113630@sun.Eng.Sun.COM> island!argv@sun.com (Dan Heller) writes:
>Why are people so stuck on using printf?

Because everybody's first C program, taken from K&R, is:

main()
{
	printf("Hello, World!\n");
}

From step one, we are taught to use it for everything.

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          C. Harald Koch          NTT Systems, Inc., Toronto, Ontario          
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