Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/5/84; site muddcs.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!bonnie!akgua!mcnc!philabs!cmcl2!seismo!hao!hplabs!sdcrdcf!trwrb!scgvaxd!muddcs!russell From: russell@muddcs.UUCP (Russell Shilling) Newsgroups: net.lang.mod2 Subject: Re: Re: Modula-2 I/O Message-ID: <240@muddcs.UUCP> Date: Wed, 26-Sep-84 20:59:03 EDT Article-I.D.: muddcs.240 Posted: Wed Sep 26 20:59:03 1984 Date-Received: Sun, 30-Sep-84 04:07:24 EDT References: <17@angband.UUCP> Distribution: net Organization: Harvey Mudd College, Claremont, CA Lines: 8 > I like Mike Powell's idea of adapting Unix "printf" for use with Modula-2. > Despite its shortcomings, I like the combination of convenience and > (even more important) readability which "printf" provides. Quick note: DECWRL Modula has readf, writef, fprintf, ... VERY nice to use. But the standard Modula InOut is not there, so there would be some porta/compati-bility problems here.