Subj : Re: Do all programming languages use files?
To   : comp.programming
From : gswork
Date : Mon Aug 29 2005 02:40 pm


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?
>
> Can any one help? Thanks.

i can't imagine a language devised from an embedded system that never
sees a file would, for instance.

it may be more interesting to ask if there is anything that *all
programming languages* have in common*


*with the exception of a) causing flamewars about languages or b)
causing initially reasonable discussions regarding turing completeness
that soon sink into flamewars!

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