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From: cottrell@nbs-vms.ARPA
Newsgroups: net.lang.c
Subject: IO at the Lazy P Ranch
Message-ID: <8830@brl-tgr.ARPA>
Date: Fri, 1-Mar-85 13:04:35 EST
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Posted: Fri Mar  1 13:04:35 1985
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/*
> In article <8630@brl-tgr.ARPA> cottrell@nbs-vms.ARPA quotes a
> part of my article to show that pascal I/O is braindamaged :
> >Jack Jansen writes...
> >> I'm sick and tired of delaying all my readln()s until I've
> >> printed my next prompt, and checking each read() whether it should
> >> be preceded by a readln() because there's still a newline
> >> lingering in my buffer.
> >> -- 
> > 
> Although I did write this, I think that it is *not* very decent to
> try and prove your point by quoting things out of context.

At least I spelled your name right!
 
> What I said in the ~30 lines before this fragment is that it *is*
> feasible to implement a good I/O system in pascal (usually referred
> to as "lazy I/O"), and that I would like to see that implemented
> by everyone.
> I'm sick and tired of lazy implementors who don't implement
> lazy I/O, and of lazy netters, who don't read all of a posting
> before using pieces of it to "prove" *their* point.
> 
> Final-Statement: I like pascal-I/O, *AS LONG AS IT IS DECENTLY
> 	IMPLEMENTED*.

Whatever it is you're sick about, it's called PASCAL. I'm sick of
people who implement & teach PASCAL to poor unsuspecting students. 

	jim
*/