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  1. Path: seaeagle.csi.cam.ac.uk!ag129
  2. From: ag129@ucs.cam.ac.uk (A. Grant)
  3. Newsgroups: comp.lang.pl1,comp.lang.c
  4. Subject: Re: PL/I and C
  5. Date: Sun, 3 Mar 1996 18:16:52
  6. Organization: University of Cambridge
  7. Message-ID: <ag129.168.0012487D@ucs.cam.ac.uk>
  8. References: <4gh5ru$eng@goanna.cs.rmit.EDU.AU> <4h11ub$njp@goanna.cs.rmit.EDU.AU> <TANMOY.96Feb28085159@qcd.lanl.gov> <4h8vte$s76@goanna.cs.rmit.EDU.AU> <4h9t5l$hkk@solutions.solon.com>
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  10.  
  11. In article <4h9t5l$hkk@solutions.solon.com> seebs@solutions.solon.com (Peter Seebach) writes:
  12. >>   sprint would appear to be comparable in intent to PUT STRING.
  13.  
  14. >You're forgetting the "f".  Which is apparently because you lack the
  15. >conceputal framework.  sprintf-> string print *formatted*.  Those formats
  16. >are awe-inspiringly powerful.
  17.  
  18. Awe-inspiring?  It can't even put commas into numbers, which is about
  19. the most basic requirement of printing formatted numbers.
  20.  
  21. And PUT STRING with EDIT _is_ a formatted string print.
  22.