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Re: Text processing

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On Mon, 26 Sep 2011 08:34:03 -0500, Mark Storkamp wrote:

>> A widely used application of text files are program files. Most
>> programming languages (and here C is not an exception) store the
>> program in text format.
> 
> 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.

Another counter-example is that many older dialects of BASIC *didn't*
store their programs as text files, but used a tokenised format for the
sake of space and performance.

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Text processing jacob navia <jacob@spamsink.net> - 2011-09-26 12:29 +0200
  Re: Text processing Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2011-09-26 13:18 +0100
    Re: Text processing jacob navia <jacob@spamsink.net> - 2011-09-26 17:06 +0200
      Re: Text processing Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2011-09-26 19:07 +0100
    Re: Text processing "BartC" <bc@freeuk.com> - 2011-09-26 16:16 +0100
    Re: Text processing Harald van Dijk <truedfx@gmail.com> - 2011-09-26 12:36 -0700
      Re: Text processing Harald van Dijk <truedfx@gmail.com> - 2011-09-26 13:33 -0700
        Re: Text processing jacob navia <jacob@spamsink.net> - 2011-09-26 22:45 +0200
        Re: Text processing Tim Rentsch <txr@alumni.caltech.edu> - 2012-03-07 15:48 -0800
      Re: Text processing Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2011-09-26 22:58 +0100
        Re: Text processing Harald van Dijk <truedfx@gmail.com> - 2011-09-26 15:40 -0700
          Re: Text processing Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2011-09-27 01:41 +0100
            Re: Text processing Harald van Dijk <truedfx@gmail.com> - 2011-09-26 17:55 -0700
              Re: Text processing Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2011-09-27 02:41 +0100
                Re: Text processing Harald van Dijk <truedfx@gmail.com> - 2011-09-26 22:56 -0700
                Re: Text processing Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2011-09-27 12:51 +0100
        Re: Text processing pacman@kosh.dhis.org (Alan Curry) - 2011-09-27 01:05 +0000
          Re: Text processing Harald van Dijk <truedfx@gmail.com> - 2011-09-26 18:09 -0700
        Re: Text processing James Kuyper <jameskuyper@verizon.net> - 2011-09-26 21:43 -0400
          Re: Text processing Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2011-09-27 02:46 +0100
  Re: Text processing Mark Storkamp <mstorkamp@yahoo.com> - 2011-09-26 08:34 -0500
    Re: Text processing "BartC" <bc@freeuk.com> - 2011-09-26 15:47 +0100
      Re: Text processing jacob navia <jacob@spamsink.net> - 2011-09-26 17:02 +0200
    Re: Text processing jacob navia <jacob@spamsink.net> - 2011-09-26 17:03 +0200
    Re: Text processing Nobody <nobody@nowhere.com> - 2011-09-26 18:36 +0100
      Re: Text processing hormelfree@gmail.com - 2012-03-07 17:39 -0800
        Re: Text processing Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org> - 2012-03-07 19:09 -0800
    Re: Text processing pete <pfiland@mindspring.com> - 2011-09-26 19:46 -0400
  Re: Text processing Kleuskes & Moos <kleuske@somewhere.else.net> - 2011-09-26 14:02 +0000
    Re: Text processing Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org> - 2011-09-26 12:42 -0700
  Re: Text processing Ben Pfaff <blp@cs.stanford.edu> - 2011-09-26 11:11 -0700
    Re: Text processing jacob navia <jacob@spamsink.net> - 2011-09-26 21:01 +0200

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