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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mel.connect.com.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.hawaii.edu!news.uoregon.edu!arclight.uoregon.edu!usenet.eel.ufl.edu!newsfeed.internetmci.com!news.io.com!insync!uuneo.neosoft.com!web.nmti.com!peter From: peter@nmti.com (Peter da Silva) Newsgroups: comp.unix.misc,comp.unix.bsd.misc Subject: Re: How to delete files within C programs Date: 2 May 1996 22:39:49 GMT Organization: Network/development platform support, NMTI Lines: 22 Message-ID: <4mbdjl$nic@web.nmti.com> References: <Oum-El-Kheir.Benkahla-3004961724540001@mac-ugm-3.imag.fr> <4maf8g$6u7@innocence.interface-business.de> <4mast0$res@news.rhrz.uni-bonn.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: sonic.nmti.com Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.misc:22376 comp.unix.bsd.misc:896 In article <4mast0$res@news.rhrz.uni-bonn.de>, Henry G. Juengst <juengst@saph1.physik.uni-bonn.de> wrote: > The functions in the libraries are an important part of C. And they > are not identical in both 'standards'. That's like complaining that your car and your water heater run on different kinds of "gas". > Anyway, I have never seen any Unix philosophy, it is just idle talk. Then you haven't been paying attention. Go out and get a copy of the original "Software Tools" by Kernighan and Plauger. Read about the programming philosophy of the original authors of the system. As for ADA... eccch. Give me Smalltalk any day. -- Peter da Silva (NIC: PJD2) `-_-' 1601 Industrial Boulevard Bailey Network Management 'U` Sugar Land, TX 77487-5013 +1 713 274 5180 "Har du kramat din varg idag?" USA Bailey pays for my technical expertise. My opinions probably scare them