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From: "Luke A. Guest" <laguest@__n_o_s_p_a_m__abyss2.demon.co.uk>
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Subject: Re: Ada Advocacy.
Date: Thu, 28 Aug 2003 00:06:48 +0100
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On Wed, 27 Aug 2003 12:15:34 -0400, Warren W. Gay VE3WWG wrote:

> What is so difficult about:
> 
>     Put_Line("Hello World");
> 
> or even
> 
>     Ada.Text_IO.Put_Line("Hello World");
> 
> Even before you can do printf/cout, you have to #include some
> header files. I fail to see the difficulty here >:-/

Ok, fair enough, but why would so many courses create their own child
packages for I/O? Does it not support printing of different types as
standard?

Luke.