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by 95014_refugee 1084 days ago
Considering the origins of "stockholm syndrome" this may not be exactly the message you intended.

However, printf and its ilk get it right; presentation is a property of the context in which the entity is to be presented, not of the entity itself. You can kvetch about the markup syntax, or the type safety issues the C implementation has, but the architecture is fundamentally correct.