Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site brl-tgr.ARPA Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!allegra!mit-eddie!godot!harvard!seismo!brl-tgr!tgr!cottrell@nbs-vms.ARPA 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 Article-I.D.: brl-tgr.8830 Posted: Fri Mar 1 13:04:35 1985 Date-Received: Sun, 3-Mar-85 03:45:13 EST Sender: news@brl-tgr.ARPA Lines: 31 /* > 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 */