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From: tainter@gumby.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.lang.lisp
Subject: Re: Thus spake the DoD...
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Date: Fri, 22-Mar-85 19:25:30 EST
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Posted: Fri Mar 22 19:25:30 1985
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In article <152@ucbcad.UUCP> faustus@ucbcad.UUCP writes:
 > ...how about something like printf? It's no fun
 >to have to do this in lisp...
 >
 >	Wayne

Where is the problem with doing printf in lisp?  I haven't tried, I admit.
The only problems I ever encountered with printf in the other languages were:
  1) Passing a variable length parameter list.
  -- Hardly a serious problem for lisp.
  2) Passing parameters of different types.
  -- This is a problem in lisp? Gimme a break.

-- Johnathan A. Tainter (at THE university of wisconsin)