Is this a true statement?

[Carl Fink]

In article <3b35ed3b.1401529 at nntp.sprynet.com>, David C. Ullrich wrote:

Are you trolling or just having trouble with English?

> I may well be misunderstanding something, but it's not deliberate.
> What _is_ the distinction between "write to a file" and
> "create a new program"? (I'm assuming that the "program"
> in question is the device driver. _Is_ that something other
> than a file? And if not then what does a C program that
> writes device drivers do, other than write a file?)

But "writing a device driver" isn't something the *program* does at
all.  It's something a *programmer* does.  The programmer, working in
Python, could technically write a device driver, but for practical
purposes wouldn't be "using" Python to create the driver.  He/she
would be writing the device driver in pure machine language and the
only use of Python would be to perform a file write operation.

"Writing a device driver", I repeat, is what the *programmer* does,
not what the *program that writes the actual file* does.
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Carl Fink		carlf at dm.net