The March of Progress (in programming language syntax :)

[xytroxon]

From Hacker News:

http://alan.dipert.org/post/153430634/the-march-of-progress">//http://alan.dipert.org/post/153430634/the-march-of-progress



Comments:

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