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From: dewar@cs.nyu.edu (Robert Dewar)
Subject: Re: C/C++ knocks the crap out of Ada
Date: 1996/02/20
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Date: 1996-02-20T00:00:00+00:00
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Richard said

Ada does not support Fortran-style formatted I/O, nor PL/I style
formatted or pictured I/O (but see Interfaces.COBOL).

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 :-)