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The March of Progress (in programming language syntax :)

Posted: Sat May 12, 2012 7:02 pm
by xytroxon
From Hacker News:
http://alan.dipert.org/post/153430634/t ... f-progress

Comments:
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3963541

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The March of Progress

* 1980: C

printf("%10.2f", x);

* 1988: C++

cout << setw(10) << setprecision(2) << showpoint << x;

* 1996: Java

java.text.NumberFormat formatter = java.text.NumberFormat.getNumberInstance(); formatter.setMinimumFractionDigits(2); formatter.setMaximumFractionDigits(2); String s = formatter.format(x); for (int i = s.length(); i < 10; i++) System.out.print(' '); System.out.print(s);

* 2004: Java

System.out.printf("%10.2f", x);

* 2008: Scala and Groovy

printf("%10.2f", x)

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-- xytroxon ;o)