the python name

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On 2019-01-07 23:04, Dennis Lee Bieber wrote:
> On Tue, 8 Jan 2019 10:10:13 +1300, DL Neil <PythonList at DancesWithMice.info>
> declaimed the following:
> 
>>
>>Why is that obscure? It makes perfect sense - to those of us who have 
>>used tape/serial storage! Perhaps less-so to [bobble-heads], sorry I 
>>mean people who grew-up with 'bubble memory' (Memory sticks, 'flash 
>>drives', SSDs). In point-of-fact, Python Context Managers
>>
> 	Apologies, but "bubble memory" is something completely different --
> using movable magnetic domains rather than capacitive charged bits.
> 
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bubble_memory
> 
>>
>>Why "print"? I thought I was displaying something on the screen (indeed 
>>STDIO might go to a file, eg log-like). Whither print?
>>
> 	Using the wrong language then... COBOL has DISPLAY <G>
> 
> 	Why "print" -- least surprise! Languages back to FORTRAN (and predating
> terminals) had "print" as the quick&dirty output statement (vs the more
> complex formatted output). FORTRAN, BASIC, Pascal, probably Modula-2.
> 
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Pascal has Write and WriteLn, and Modula 2 has variations on Write*, 
such as WriteString and WriteInt.