the python name
MRAB
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Mon Jan 7 18:33:55 EST 2019
On 2019-01-07 23:04, Dennis Lee Bieber wrote:
> On Tue, 8 Jan 2019 10:10:13 +1300, DL Neil <PythonList at DancesWithMice.info>
> declaimed the following:
>
>>
>>Why is that obscure? It makes perfect sense - to those of us who have
>>used tape/serial storage! Perhaps less-so to [bobble-heads], sorry I
>>mean people who grew-up with 'bubble memory' (Memory sticks, 'flash
>>drives', SSDs). In point-of-fact, Python Context Managers
>>
> Apologies, but "bubble memory" is something completely different --
> using movable magnetic domains rather than capacitive charged bits.
>
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bubble_memory
>
>>
>>Why "print"? I thought I was displaying something on the screen (indeed
>>STDIO might go to a file, eg log-like). Whither print?
>>
> Using the wrong language then... COBOL has DISPLAY <G>
>
> Why "print" -- least surprise! Languages back to FORTRAN (and predating
> terminals) had "print" as the quick&dirty output statement (vs the more
> complex formatted output). FORTRAN, BASIC, Pascal, probably Modula-2.
>
[snip]
Pascal has Write and WriteLn, and Modula 2 has variations on Write*,
such as WriteString and WriteInt.
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