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Article #4156Re: Modula2's godawful IO.
From: Rahul Dhesi
Date: Tue, 12 Apr 1988 19:00
Date: Tue, 12 Apr 1988 19:00
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In article <730@mhuxm.UUCP> gak@mhuxm.UUCP (Vincent Hatem) writes:
>Besides, the whole idea of the WriteCard()-style I/O system is to remove the
>20K overhead that printf() adds to programs.
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.
If you'll believe that, you'll also probably believe that Modula-2
is an improvement on Pascal.
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Rahul Dhesi UUCP: <backbones>!{iuvax,pur-ee,uunet}!bsu-cs!dhesi
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!mnetor!uunet!husc6!bloom-beacon!mit-eddie!rutgers!iuvax!bsu-cs!dhesi From: dhesi@bsu-cs.UUCP (Rahul Dhesi) Newsgroups: comp.lang.modula2,comp.lang.misc,comp.lang.c,comp.lang.pascal Subject: Re: Modula2's godawful IO. Message-ID: <2608@bsu-cs.UUCP> Date: 12 Apr 88 19:00:35 GMT References: <764@ndsuvax.UUCP> <535@m10ux.UUCP> <730@mhuxm.UUCP> Reply-To: dhesi@bsu-cs.UUCP (Rahul Dhesi) Organization: CS Dept, Ball St U, Muncie, Indiana Lines: 13