Subj : Re: Do all programming languages use files?
To   : comp.programming
From : Scott Moore
Date : Mon Aug 29 2005 01:45 pm

Richard Heathfield wrote:
> Scott Moore said:
> 
> 
>>Ben Pfaff wrote:
>>
>>>Scott Moore <samiam@moorecad.com> writes:
>>>
>>>
>>>>C doesn't have files.
>>>
>>>Hosted implementations of standard C implement a set of functions
>>>for file I/O.
>>
>>Again, C does *NOT* have file I/O. Think carefully about the question.
> 
> 
> As far as ISO is concerned, the standard C library is part of the language, 
> except for freestanding implementations (which are not required to support 
> the entire library).
> 

Semantics. If its a library, then you could well argue that GPS is built
into the language, since there are undoubtedly libraries for that.

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