Subj : Re: Do all programming languages use files? To : comp.programming From : Scott Moore Date : Mon Aug 29 2005 02:38 pm Scott Moore wrote: > 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. > From K&R "The C programming language" the introduction: "C itself provides no input/output facillities; there are no READ or WRITE statements, no built-in file access methods". These guys WROTE the language. Have we pounded this into the ground yet ? .