Re: Do all programming languages use files?

Scott Moore wrote:
> Scott Moore wrote:
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>>Ben Pfaff wrote:
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>>>Scott Moore <samiamsansspam@xxxxxxx> writes:
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>>>>Ben Pfaff wrote:
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>>>>>Scott Moore <samiam@xxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
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>>>>>>Past wrote:
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>>>>>>>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?
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>>>>>>C doesn't have files.
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>>>>>Hosted implementations of standard C implement a set of functions
>>>>>for file I/O.
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>>>>Again, C does *NOT* have file I/O. Think carefully about the question.
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>>>A hosted implementation *must* have functions for file I/O.
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>>Last time, that does NOT make it part of the language, which was
>>the orignal question.
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> 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.
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>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 ?

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