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The string formatting concept found in sprintf can be found in almost any language today (you know, smothering a string with %s %d %f etc. and providing a list of variables to fill their places).
Which langugage was it originally that had a library function or language construct which offered this functionality?
Please specify some kind of source reference to confirm your claim, so that we avoid pure speculation or guessing.
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Robert
Wikipedia has a pretty thorough history. It suggests that the C printf function had its origins in BCPL’s writef function.