From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_MSGID autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 10a146,a03ae7f4e53958e1 X-Google-Attributes: gid10a146,public X-Google-Thread: fac41,a03ae7f4e53958e1 X-Google-Attributes: gidfac41,public X-Google-Thread: 109fba,a03ae7f4e53958e1 X-Google-Attributes: gid109fba,public X-Google-Thread: 103376,8775b19e3c68a5dc X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Thread: fa0ae,a03ae7f4e53958e1 X-Google-Attributes: gidfa0ae,public X-Google-Thread: 1014db,a03ae7f4e53958e1 X-Google-Attributes: gid1014db,public X-Google-Thread: 114809,a03ae7f4e53958e1 X-Google-Attributes: gid114809,public X-Google-Thread: 1094ba,a03ae7f4e53958e1 X-Google-Attributes: gid1094ba,public From: Klaus-Georg Adams Subject: Re: Which language pays most 17457 -- C++ vs. Java? Date: 1997/12/18 Message-ID: #1/1 X-Deja-AN: 299285985 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: adams@achibm5 References: <199712121931.LAA25389@sirius.infonex.com> <349793cb.33600861@news.wxs.nl> <34923264.75B5@netup.cl> <670qio$8a$1@sparcserver.lrz-muenchen.de> <3494B7DA.5463@ici.net> <34958D16.190C@gsg.eds.com> <679807$8gm@ws1.emirates.net.ae> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 X-Complaints-To: usenet@nz12.rz.uni-karlsruhe.de X-Trace: nz12.rz.uni-karlsruhe.de 882435157 8238 (None) 129.13.108.150 Organization: Anorganische Chemie II, Uni-Karlsruhe Mime-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.fortran,comp.lang.c,comp.lang.c++,comp.lang.eiffel,comp.lang.java.programmer,comp.lang.smalltalk,comp.lang.perl.misc,comp.lang.ada Date: 1997-12-18T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: tadmc@metronet.com (Tad McClellan) writes: > > Mark Framness (framness@EMIRATES.NET.AE) wrote: > : In message <34958D16.190C@gsg.eds.com> - "Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz" > : Mon, 15 Dec 1997 12:03:34 -0800 writes: > : #> > > : #>> C provides the needed primitives to do anything you need. > : #> > : #>You got this wrong; C does not have the needed primitives to handle > : #>sets, do string matching, do record-oriented I/O, etc., except in the > : #>trivial sense that anything can be simultated on anything else. > > : What do you mean sets? As in the mathematical sense? String matching? Huh? > : what do strcmp, strstr etc do? > ^^^^^^ ^^^^^^ > > Those are not *primitives* (ie. built-in to the language). > > Those are library calls (ie. add-ons to the language). > > You won't find 'strcmp' in a C compiler's grammar. Which is of course completely irrelevant. They are part of the language definition (as in ANSI Standard). -- kga ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Klaus-Georg Adams Email: Klaus-Georg.Adams@chemie.uni-karlsruhe.de Institut f. Anorg. Chemie II Tel: 0721 608 3485 Uni Karlsruhe -------------------------------------------------------------------------