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Subject: Non-Forth systems/languages.
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Date: 19 Jan 90 23:18:49 GMT
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 Date: 01-18-90 (13:15)              Number: 1565 (Echo)
   To: ARCHIE WARNOCK                Refer#: 1563
 From: STEVE PALINCSAR                 Read: NO
 Subj: C + libriaries                Status: PUBLIC MESSAGE

 Now you raise the question of what's part of the C language and what 
 isn't.  Seems to me that the "standard" libraries or library functions 
 are a part of the language whether they're part of the ansi def. or K&R 
 or what.  To call C a "small, lean & mean" language is a joke when you 
 realize it takes about a 500 page book to describe each function in the 
 Turbo C package!  Somebody here once raged on a about the number of 
 reserved words in forth vs C, claiming that that number indicated 
 someting about the size or power of the language.  Pity that at the time
 I didn't know enough about C to expose that particular sham...
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