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- From: Lawrence Kirby <fred@genesis.demon.co.uk>
- Newsgroups: comp.lang.c,comp.lang.c++,comp.object,comp.software-eng
- Subject: Re: Beware of "C" Hackers -- A rebuttal to Bertrand Meyer
- Date: Tue, 26 Mar 96 13:24:41 GMT
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- In article <827765484snz@tsys.demon.co.uk>
- tomw@tsys.demon.co.uk "Tom Wheeley" writes:
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- >That is why you can build the standard library within C -- you cannot write
- >the entire standard library using the standard library, therefore if the
- >standard library is a part of the C language, then the standard library is
- >no longer written in the C language, but only a limited subset thereof.
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- You can't use redundancy to prove whether something is part of the language
- or not. while() loops can be expressed as for() loops or even using if/goto's.
- while() is still very much part of the C language.
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- As others have pointed out you can't write functions such as time() or
- getc() in standard C.
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- Lawrence Kirby | fred@genesis.demon.co.uk
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