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From: alan@allegra.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.lang
Subject: Re: I/O operations in programming languages
Message-ID: <1791@allegra.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 26-Aug-83 14:10:44 EDT
Article-I.D.: allegra.1791
Posted: Fri Aug 26 14:10:44 1983
Date-Received: Sat, 27-Aug-83 22:00:44 EDT
Organization: Bell Labs, Murray Hill
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In response to Rehmi...


	Don't you *dare* mention C within ten words of Pascal, Ada,
	or any other such structured, verbose crocks.


What's your problem, anyway?  Are you upset because we haven't all
accepted C as the One True Language?  In the future, why don't you
save such stupidity for net.religion.c, and stop bothering the rest
of us?


	Part of Un*x's win comes from the fact that it imposes no
	structure at all on files, and treats them as a seekable
	byte-stream.


That's very interesting.  The discussion was about I/O operations in
programming languages, not in operating systems.  There is no I/O in
C, so your article seems pretty pointless.

Give me a break...


	Alan Driscoll
	Bell Labs, Murray Hill