cottrell@nbs-vms.ARPA (03/01/85)
/* > 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 */