Re: Do all programming languages use files?

Richard Heathfield wrote:
> Scott Moore said:
>
>
>>Ben Pfaff wrote:
>>
>>>Scott Moore <samiam@xxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
>>>
>>>
>>>>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.
>
>
> As far as ISO is concerned, the standard C library is part of the language,
> except for freestanding implementations (which are not required to support
> the entire library).
>

Semantics. If its a library, then you could well argue that GPS is built
into the language, since there are undoubtedly libraries for that.

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