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From: mwm@ucbtopaz.CC.Berkeley.ARPA
Newsgroups: net.lang.c,net.lang.pascal
Subject: Re: Language transitions
Message-ID: <732@ucbtopaz.CC.Berkeley.ARPA>
Date: Sat, 16-Feb-85 22:45:30 EST
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Reply-To: mwm@ucbtopaz.UUCP (Praiser of Bob)
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Summary: 

In article <2793@ncsu.UUCP> mauney@ncsu.UUCP (Jon Mauney) writes:
>Of the many flaws in Pascal, ordinary I/O is not one.  There is nothing
>preventing good interactive execution of Pascal programs.
>Jon Mauney    mcnc!ncsu!mauney    C.S. Dept, North Carolina State University

Except (staying within the semantics of J&W, of course!):

1) Getting read/write to work as expected on an interactive system. I've
heard that it can be done right while still maintaining the J&W semantics,
but have never seen it so done.

2) Doing the *exact* equivalent of printf("Gimme data: "); with the
cursor left at the end of the line.

	<mike