Jerry Jankura wrote in a message to Mike Walker:
 JJ> Mike - Let me offer a few advantages of stream I/O
 JJ> 1. The same symbols (">") or function names are used to
 JJ> read    from, or write to any kind of device (console, file, or
 JJ> in-core    storage). With stdio, you have to remember to use
 JJ> printf, sprintf, or    fprintf depending on what kind of device you
 JJ> are writing to. 
The notation looks a little strange at first. Expecially for someone not used 
to C++ yet. :-) Can you tell me what you mean by "in-core" storage? Are you 
refering to writting to memory?
 JJ> 2. Stream I/O is extensible, standard I/O is not. For example, you
 JJ> can    write your own operator "<<" to write the contents of an
 JJ> instance of    a structure; you cannot reasonably modify printf()
 JJ> to write the    contents in the same manner.
So then if I was displaying a user defined record of some kind I could extend 
cout to display/store my record type? This sounds pretty pretty neat, I'll 
have to look into this a little.
 JJ> 3. Stream I/O is parsed at compile time, stdio is parsed at run
 JJ> time.    This means that stream I/O can potentially be smaller and
Really I did not realize the stdio was parsed at run time. This would be a 
definate plus for stream io wouldn't it?
 JJ> 4. If you're willing to derive objects from streambuf and iostream,
 JJ> you    can build your own devices (perhaps a "modem" or an "ascii
I think this will have to wait since I am still learning the basics of C++. I 
am finding that there are a lot of similarities to object pascal that I was 
writting. It would be interesting to derive an object for the modem device. I 
could really see a lot of potential use for an object such as this. It would 
be pretty useful for writting doors, or even a bbs package for that matter.
 JJ> Other than being able to work with legacy programs written in C,
 JJ> (There, I was finally able to use the term "legacy" in connection
 JJ> with C and C++ :), I can't think of any inherent advantage of stdio
 JJ> over stream I/O. 
I'm not too worried out this since I am making the transition from pascal to 
C++. C really isn't much of an issue here since I am making the move to C++ 
not C.
   Mike....
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