On 8/3/23 18:47, Larry McVoy wrote:
On Thu, Aug 03, 2023 at 12:57:31PM -0400, Phil Budne wrote:

On the subject of "no printf", there is not one, not two, but THREE
ways to format strings, easily compounded with print:

	print("%s %s" % ("hello", "world"))
	print("{1} {two}".format("hello", two="world"))
	print(f"{greeting} {populace}")

I'm pretty sure the last method (which initially made me vomit, due to

All of those make me vomit.  Pretty much every sane language has printf.
Tell us how you really feel :). But, I couldn't agree more. I worked really hard to get printf and sprintf down and then folks started doing it "right" and "better" or renaming it but watering it down - ugh! I say, we picket.