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From: kent@xanth.cs.odu.edu (Kent Paul Dolan)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.modula2,comp.lang.misc
Subject: Re: Modula2's godawful IO.
Message-ID: <4995@xanth.cs.odu.edu>
Date: 23 Apr 88 04:18:51 GMT
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Keywords: NEW, DISPOSE, ALLOCATE, DEALLOCATE


Yeah, one comment:  after trying it a while, I'm perfectly happy to
type a separate function call for each input or output data item, to
keep a clean, simple language.  Remember what the Ada committee said?
(Paraphrased:) "We'll accept a language that is a little more trouble
to write if it is easier to read and to maintain."  That still seems
to me to be a worthwhile tradeoff.

Kent, the man from xanth.