A really bad idea.

[Michael Hudson]

Thomas Heller <theller at python.net> writes:

> Michael Hudson <mwh at python.net> writes:
> 
> > C without it's library would get a rating of "useless"... guess this
> > is true for most languages, but C more than most.
> > 
> Not at all, imo. You just have to write the library yourself,
> and you *can* do it in C.

I guess... but not portably, surely?

Anyway, it meant to be a serious comment, just the observation that C
puts very little into the language and (relatively speaking) more in
the stdlib.

Cheers,
M.

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