Subj : Re: Do all programming languages use files?
To   : comp.programming
From : Scott Moore
Date : Mon Aug 29 2005 01:46 pm

Ed Prochak wrote:
> Scott Moore wrote:
> 
>>Ben Pfaff wrote:
>>
>>>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.
>>
>>Again, C does *NOT* have file I/O. Think carefully about the question.
> 
> 
> IIRC, the original PASCAL did not support file I/O. (you could do
> output using writeln(), but not to a specific file).
>   ed
> 

No, writeln is build into the language, is a system procedure, is parsed
and has a place in the BNF description of the language.

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