From sth at info-igor.org Mon Feb 25 15:26:30 2019
From: sth at info-igor.org (Scott Hannahs)
Date: Mon, 25 Feb 2019 18:26:30 -0500


Subject: Getting a replacement for sprintf ?!
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> On Feb 25, 2019, at 3:32 PM, Thomas Braun <thomas.braun at virtuell-zuhause.de> wrote:
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> I'm talking about the following paragraph in printf's help page:
Well that is a stupid library, I wonder where wavemetrics found that one? Not stdc library, I wonder if it is a legacy limitation that could be removed trivially. But then again, using printf for strings is sort of redundant. Just concatenate with a ?+?.

At some point maintaining the Igor programming language is going to be a bit more trouble than it is worth. Switching to lua, python or even my favorite Swift might be a future direction?

-Scott

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