On 2019-01-07 23:04, Dennis Lee Bieber wrote:
On Tue, 8 Jan 2019 10:10:13 +1300, DL Neil <pythonl...@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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