Modula2's godawful IO.

[Rahul Dhesi]

In article <730 at mhuxm.UUCP> gak at 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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