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From: dhesi@bsu-cs.UUCP (Rahul Dhesi)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.modula2,comp.lang.misc,comp.lang.c,comp.lang.pascal
Subject: Re: Modula2's godawful IO.
Message-ID: <2608@bsu-cs.UUCP>
Date: 12 Apr 88 19:00:35 GMT
References: <764@ndsuvax.UUCP> <535@m10ux.UUCP> <730@mhuxm.UUCP>
Reply-To: dhesi@bsu-cs.UUCP (Rahul Dhesi)
Organization: CS Dept, Ball St U, Muncie, Indiana
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In article <730@mhuxm.UUCP> gak@mhuxm.UUCP (Vincent Hatem) writes:
>Besides, the whole idea of the WriteCard()-style I/O system is to remove the
>20K overhead that printf() adds to programs.

Actually, the story I hear is that WriteCard was originally meant
(back when Wirth was developing languages on an old CDC machine)
to punch a card.  Nostalgia being what it is, WriteCard now
prints unsigned integers.

If you'll believe that, you'll also probably believe that Modula-2
is an improvement on Pascal.
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Rahul Dhesi         UUCP:  <backbones>!{iuvax,pur-ee,uunet}!bsu-cs!dhesi