Jack Diederich jack at performancedrivers.com
Thu Sep 1 23:27:39 CEST 2005

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On Thu, Sep 01, 2005 at 11:12:57PM +0200, Fredrik Lundh wrote:
> Charles Cazabon wrote:
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> > in fact, it does nothing for the program but merely has the interesting
> > side-effect of writing to stdout.
> 
> yeah, real programmers don't generate output.
> 
I'd say:
  yeah, real programmers don't generate output _to stdout_

sockets, GUI widgets, buffers? sure.  stdout?  Almost never.
Most of these don't have write() methods so I've never had a reason to
use the "print >>" syntax.

-jackdied

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