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From: uday@mips.COM (Robert Redford)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.modula2,comp.lang.misc,comp.lang.c,comp.lang.pascal
Subject: Re: Modula2's godawful IO.
Message-ID: <2024@mips.mips.COM>
Date: 13 Apr 88 06:31:57 GMT
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In article <2608@bsu-cs.UUCP>, dhesi@bsu-cs.UUCP (Rahul Dhesi) writes:
> 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.

     WriteCard stands for WriteCardinal. There is a standard library module
     CardinalIO that deals with the IO of cardinal numbers. In fact there is
     a predefined data type CARDINAL. It has nothing to do with cards.


                                              ..Uday