From: Ned Konz Date: 2002-08-01T05:42:16+09:00 Subject: Re: Late contribution to discussions On Wednesday 31 July 2002 08:38 am, Gavin Sinclair wrote: > And what potential does any language have without File IO As long as you're dealing with systems with no files, potentially lots... The majority of microprocessors on the Earth couldn't do File IO if they wanted to, since they aren't connected to file systems or mass storage. Think of the processors in your printer, mouse, monitor, keyboard, microwave oven... Now if the language couldn't get to I/O registers, now *that* would be a problem... -- Ned Konz http://bike-nomad.com GPG key ID: BEEA7EFE