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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.rmit.EDU.AU!news.unimelb.EDU.AU!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!solace!nntp.uio.no!news.cais.net!news1.erols.com!newsfeed.internetmci.com!news.inc.net!cs.uwp.edu!nelson From: nelson@cs.uwp.edu (Jeremy Nelson) Newsgroups: comp.unix.misc,comp.unix.bsd.misc Subject: Re: How to delete files within C programs Date: 2 May 1996 03:39:03 GMT Organization: University of Wisconsin - Parkside Lines: 14 Message-ID: <4m9aon$kh@news.inc.net> References: <Oum-El-Kheir.Benkahla-3004961724540001@mac-ugm-3.imag.fr> <4m8csc$3jg@innocence.interface-business.de> <DqquoL.5z5@kithrup.com> <4m8vn4$3f8@news.rhrz.uni-bonn.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: 131.210.1.4 Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.misc:22339 comp.unix.bsd.misc:885 Henry G. Juengst <juengst@saph1.physik.uni-bonn.de> wrote: >And POSIX is not ANSI and vice versa. There is no "standard C". >Add to this that POSIX is not unix, just a subset (e.g. VMS also >includes POSIX, which is really not unix, fortunately - for VMS). >That makes it much more difficult for beginners. Geez! Lighten up! Youve been making it sound like the learning curve for C is insurmountable for new programmers. Its not. It just takes a few weeks a couple thousand lines of code. Why should C be easy for beginners? Why should beginners be scared of the learning curve? Its *not* that big a deal. Jeremy