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From: mark@cbosgd.UUCP (Mark Horton)
Newsgroups: net.lang
Subject: Re: Ada (TM) vs C
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Date: Wed, 19-Oct-83 10:15:07 EDT
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Posted: Wed Oct 19 10:15:07 1983
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Ada would be a nice language, if only you could get a compiler, and if only
it had useable I/O.  I haven't programmed in Ada, but I have programmed in
Simula, which also forces you to call a separate procedure for each variable
or constant you want to write out.  Essentially to do
	printf("A is %s, B is %d\n", A, B);
in such a language you are forced to type
	outstr("A is ");
	outstr(A);
	outstr(", B is ");
	outint(B);
	outline();
which gets real old real quick.

Not that printf is the best thing since sliced bread.  For such debugging,
I always liked PL/1's "put data" construct:
	put skip data(A, B);