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Lew Pitcher <lew.pitcher@digitalfreehold.ca> writes:
> With respect to your observation on PASCAL I/O, let me quote from "The C
> Programming Language" by Brian W. Kernighan and Dennis M. Ritchie, (c) 1978
> Bell Telephone Laboratories:
>
>   "C provides no operations to deal directly with composite objects
>   such as character strings, sets, lists, or arrays considered as a
>   whole. There is no analog, for example, of the PL/1 operations which
>   manipulate an entire array or string. The language does not define
>   any storage allocation facility other than static definition and the
>   stack discipline provided by the local variables of functions: there
>   is no heap or garbage collection like that provided by Algol
>   68. Finally, C itself provides no input-output facilities: there are
>   no READ or WRITE statements, and no wired-in file access
>   methods. All of these higher-level mechanisms must be provided by
>   explicitly-called functions."
>  
> It is interesting to note that, like PASCAL, the C language (the
> original language as documented by K&R v1) does not provide I/O
> facilities.

Sort of...

There’s a language-vs-library distinction, which makes the observation
that the language doesn’t provide any I/O primitives somewhat
uninteresting.

Looking beyond that distinction, however, the volume you quote also
talks of the “standard C I/O library [...] supported on all machines
that support C”.  It seems to me that the idea of a freestanding
implementation, formalized in 1989, must have been a later introduction.

Pascal, on the other hand, had I/O support built into the language
(i.e. not just a library component) in its earliest versions.  See
s6.2.4 of Wirth’s 1970 description of the language, for a start.

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                Re: mc finds more than `find` finds? Lew Pitcher <lew.pitcher@digitalfreehold.ca> - 2016-01-04 19:28 -0500
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