MW> I know I am probably opening up a big can of worms here. Here goes
 MW> anyways. My question has to do with stream output. I know that I can
 MW> use the traditional printf for printing formated text. Then there is
 MW> the streams (cout) mechanism that I have been reading about lately. Can
 MW> someone sum up in a nutshell the advantages/disadvantages of one method
 MW> over the other?  
 Most of the "disadvantages" to iostreams are implentation dependant.
 For example, iostream i/o takes more code space and takes more
 execution time vs  output.  But there's no intrinsic reason why
 that _has_ to be!
 As for why to use iostreams, they do have "better" notation/syntax.  It
 meshes better with object oriented code.  
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