Subj : Re: Do all programming languages use files? To : comp.programming From : Scott Moore Date : Mon Aug 29 2005 02:19 pm Scott Moore wrote: > Ben Pfaff wrote: > >>Scott Moore writes: >> >> >> >>>Ben Pfaff wrote: >>> >>> >>>>Scott Moore 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. >> >> >>A hosted implementation *must* have functions for file I/O. > > > Last time, that does NOT make it part of the language, which was > the orignal question. > Put it this way. A CPU is required as part of a C implementation. That does not make a CPU part of the C language. .