Subj : Re: Do all programming languages use files? To : comp.programming From : Ben Pfaff Date : Mon Aug 29 2005 02:22 pm Scott Moore writes: > 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. The C standard does not specify the structure or form of the CPU. It does specify the structure and form of the standard C library. -- Ben Pfaff email: blp@cs.stanford.edu web: http://benpfaff.org .