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From: shankar@hpclscu.HP.COM (Shankar Unni)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.pascal
Subject: Re: Re: Modula2's godawful IO.
Message-ID: <950010@hpclscu.HP.COM>
Date: 11 Apr 88 16:45:08 GMT
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/ hpclscu:comp.lang.pascal / (Duke Robillard) /  9:31 am  Apr  6, 1988 /

> I hate C as much as the next guy, but it seems to me that printf is
> the solution.  Has anyone ever written some kind of front end for a 
> modula compiler to turn printf's into WriteSh*t's?  It doesn't seem 

Yes, Mike Powell's Modula-2 compiler does have a built-in "printf" in its
standard I/O module (WHEW!!!). I *never* used those "WriteS**t"'s. I don't know
how he did it, but I suspect it was a simple, straightforward (and VERY
unModula-like) C implementation.. (I also suspect the compiler knew about
printf as a special predefine.)

--scu