The march of progress.

I've copied this from the Internet; we're talking about programming languages, here.

The march of progress: 

C:
   printf("%10.2f", x);

C++:
   cout << setw(10) << setprecision(2) << showpoint << x;

Java:
   java.text.NumberFormat formatter =
             java.text.NumberFormat.getNumberInstance();
   formatter.setMinimumFractionDigits(2);
   formatter.setMaximumFractionDigits(2);
   String s = formatter.format(x);
   for (int i = s.length(); i < 10; i++) System.out.print(' ');
   System.out.print(s);

Even those who don't understand anything of programming languages can say which one is simpler. Guess what is my preferred programming language? :-)