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From: russell@muddcs.UUCP (Russell Shilling)
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Subject: Re: Re: Modula-2 I/O
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Date: Wed, 26-Sep-84 20:59:03 EDT
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> 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.