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- From: dewar@cs.nyu.edu (Robert Dewar)
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- Subject: Re: C/C++ knocks the crap out of Ada
- Date: 20 Feb 1996 21:08:10 -0500
- Organization: Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences
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- Richard said
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- Ada does not support Fortran-style formatted I/O, nor PL/I style
- formatted or pictured I/O (but see Interfaces.COBOL).
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- Wrong advice, Ada 95 DOES spport COBOL-style pictures, see the information
- systems annex. I am not sure what "pictured I/O" is (COBOL certainly does
- not have it! But both COBOL and Ada 95 provide facilities for the use of
- pictures to edit alphanumeric data (this data can certainly be output
- after it is edited :-)
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