Subj : Re: Do all programming languages use files?
To   : comp.programming
From : Ben Pfaff
Date : Mon Aug 29 2005 10:09 am

Scott Moore <samiam@moorecad.com> writes:

> Past wrote:
>> I was doing a research to see if all the programming languages ever
>> written have atleast some small level capability of successfully
>> writing and reading from files?
>
> C doesn't have files.

Hosted implementations of standard C implement a set of functions
for file I/O.
-- 
On Perl: "It's as if H.P. Lovecraft, returned from the dead and speaking by
seance to Larry Wall, designed a language both elegant and terrifying for his
Elder Things to write programs in, and forgot that the Shoggoths didn't turn
out quite so well in the long run." --Matt Olson

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