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BartC wrote:
> 
> "tm" <thomas.mertes@gmx.at> wrote in message
> news:043628bb-8b8b-4094-8e7b-b1c61a69b525@c41g2000yqm.googlegroups.com...
> 
> > I consider Seed7 higher level than Java and C++ because Seed7
> > defines things in libraries that Java and C++ have hard-coded in
> > their compilers.
> 
> Isn't it the other way around?
> If a feature exists only in a library, it
> must be defined using more primitive elements in the language.

C standard library functions don't have to be written in C.

-- 
pete