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From: david@ecrhub.UUCP (David M. Haynes)
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Subject: Re: how has C bitten you?
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Date: Fri, 2-Aug-85 08:22:11 EDT
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One of my all time favourites is the non-orthagonality between
scanf and printf. Especially the following:

	scanf("%D %F", long, double); or
	scanf("%ld %lf", long, double);
vs.
	printf("%ld %f", long, double);

Why no %F or %D on printf?
And why %lf vs %f? fun!

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						David M. Haynes
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