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| I see no reason for format not to be a "full fledged programming
| language". Since i/o is irrelevant to the language per se (Lisp, C,
| Pascal and Fortran all have similar output formatting facilities, with
| LIsp having the hairiest by far), I wonder why there is no
| text-formatting library that could be used from any language.
first, there was `format'. it was inbred over lots of generations and
acquired malign cancer in the colon, atsign, dollar, and percent. this
gave birth to "perl".
so, no, you don't want `format' to be a full-fledged programming language.
#\Erik
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