Re: Lessons from Algol (Was: JLG's flogging of horses)

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From: Peter da Silva
Date: Fri, 04 May 1990 12:36

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> With respect to the C statement:

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

> one can use the following Fortran statement

>      write(*,*)' The answer is',ans,' not',resp

Will this not pad the numbers "ans" and "resp" with spaces? Fortran I/O is
heavily oriented towards columnar output, to the extent that it's all but
impossible to avoid this.
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From: peter@ficc.uu.net (Peter da Silva)
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Subject: Re: Lessons from Algol (Was: JLG's flogging of horses)
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Date: 4 May 90 12:36:02 GMT
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