Path: csiph.com!x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net!usenet.pasdenom.info!news.chainon-marquant.org!nntpfeed.proxad.net!proxad.net!feeder1-1.proxad.net!198.186.194.247.MISMATCH!news-out.readnews.com!transit3.readnews.com!nx02.iad01.newshosting.com!newshosting.com!216.196.98.142.MISMATCH!border3.nntp.dca.giganews.com!Xl.tags.giganews.com!border1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!local2.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.earthlink.com!news.earthlink.com.POSTED!not-for-mail NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 26 Sep 2011 18:46:46 -0500 Message-ID: <4E810EE5.7955@mindspring.com> Date: Mon, 26 Sep 2011 19:46:45 -0400 From: pete Reply-To: pfiland@mindspring.com Organization: PF X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.04Gold (WinNT; I) MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.c Subject: Re: Text processing References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Lines: 24 X-Usenet-Provider: http://www.giganews.com NNTP-Posting-Host: 4.154.220.62 X-Trace: sv3-qSssdxqVfvHkYiDWNHw76WJLlD/GI0cm1Dn+Se+xHNHmLQ5OBjilCEmtIL5/9qxZhzQ33O45+me3QpY!yYAkfGkOn1SD4OldTgsYXtL/dJXBSNSJibi3gQ3nIzB8jsyv37mUvO9jGAlIFX/UwkrDbmNVWXGO!OMnR7HfA/A== X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Please be sure to forward a copy of ALL headers X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Otherwise we will be unable to process your complaint properly X-Postfilter: 1.3.40 X-Original-Bytes: 1881 Xref: x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net comp.lang.c:10979 Mark Storkamp wrote: > I'm not sure who your target audience is, but I find this to be less > precise than I believe it should be. I think most people, when they > think of programs, are thinking of the executable binaries, not the > source code. While some languages, like BASIC, and other interpreted > languages do indeed save their programs as text files, > C and most others do not. You are wrong. A C program is what gets translated. A C program not the result of the translation. ISO/IEC 9899 5.1 Conceptual models 5.1.1 Translation environment 5.1.1.1 Program structure 1 A C program need not all be translated at the same time. The text of the program is kept in units called source files, (or preprocessing files) in this International Standard. -- pete