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From: Rich <rich@example.invalid>
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Subject: Re: VMS
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rbowman <bowman@montana.com> wrote:
> On Sun, 15 Jun 2025 22:26:33 -0400, c186282 wrote:
> 
>>    Otherwise however, the RUST syntax in general just seems more
>>    unpleasant than 'C'. It's like someone deliberately wanted to screw
>>    with people.
> 
> println!() would be a show stopper for me. Why everybody has to come up 
> with their special snowflake function to write to the console is beyond 
> me. Won't even go into cout << "hello world" << endl;

"println" (without the !) makes me think someone was very much a Pascal 
disciple (with it's write/writeln) for output.