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I'm not sure what the point of this is. It seems pretty petty. To wit, we could have just we well written...

    MACLISP (1980):
    (format t "Week ~R of the ~:R month of the year ~:@R~%" 15 102 1996)
        --> Week fifteen of the one hundred second month of the year MDCCCCLXXXXVI

    C/C++/Java/Python/Ruby:
    ...uh...

    COMMON LISP:
    (format t "Week ~R of the ~:R month of the year ~:@R~%" 15 102 1996)
        --> Week fifteen of the one hundred second month of the year MDCCCCLXXXXVI
There are powerful print functions and then there are powerful print functions.


Where's your sense of humor? It was intended to be funny, and it was.

Of course, like all irony the glass is only half funny.


Clojure has cl-format. (http://richhickey.github.com/clojure/clojure.pprint-api.html...)


Ditto for Perl: https://metacpan.org/module/Lisp::Fmt




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