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> (Of course, if one really wants adequate I/O facilities, one must look at
> Cobol, PL/1, or Fortran.)

Fortran? Adequate I/O facilities? Well, I must admit that Fortran I/O has
lots of *features*, but how do you do:

	printf("The answer is %d, not %d\n", ans, resp);

in Fortran? The best I can come up with on the top of my head is something
like:

	WRITE (BUFFER,100) PRINTLENGTH(ANS),PRINTLENGTH(RESP)
 100	FORMAT('(''The answer is '',',I1,'I,'',not '',',I1,'I'')')
	WRITE (5,BUFFER) ANS,RESP

One time I actually went to the trouble of implementing printf in Fortran to
make free-form output easier for one application.

> I agree that the ability to define pointers to functions is an advantage
> of C over Pascal and Ada. Otherwise C's type structure is inferior,
> even disregarding the counterintuitive syntax of type definitions.

What counterintuitive syntax? Declare them as you use them. The
counterintuitive part comes from the fact that indirection is prefix
rather than postfix. If you want to slam C for something, at least
slam the right thing!
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