A really bad idea.
Thomas Heller
theller at python.net
Fri Nov 15 09:00:51 EST 2002
Michael Hudson <mwh at python.net> writes:
> Thomas Heller <theller at python.net> writes:
>
> > Michael Hudson <mwh at python.net> writes:
> >
> > > C without it's library would get a rating of "useless"... guess this
> > > is true for most languages, but C more than most.
> > >
> > Not at all, imo. You just have to write the library yourself,
> > and you *can* do it in C.
>
> I guess... but not portably, surely?
Ok, you need a core library of system calls, but then you go. As
opposed to Pascal, for example, which I was using when I discovered
C. Mainly, because 'write' is a statement (or special syntax), and cannot
be written in Pascal itself.
> Anyway, it meant to be a serious comment,
I didn't doubt that
> just the observation that C
> puts very little into the language and (relatively speaking) more in
> the stdlib.
And this is IMO what they did right.
Thomas
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