Re: Do all programming languages use files?

Scott Moore <samiamsansspam@xxxxxxx> writes:

> Scott Moore wrote:
>> Ben Pfaff wrote:
>>>Scott Moore <samiamsansspam@xxxxxxx> writes:
>>>>Ben Pfaff wrote:
>>>>>Scott Moore <samiam@xxxxxxxxxxxx> 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.
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