Re: Reading file in emacs

[Pascal J. Bourguignon]

Andreas Politz <politza@fh-trier.de> writes:

> pjb@informatimago.com (Pascal J. Bourguignon) writes:
>
>> Deniz Dogan <deniz.a.m.dogan@gmail.com> writes:
>>
>>> 2010/6/23 Qiang Guo <mcknight0219@gmail.com>:
>>>> I know this is best done by C/C++, or some other
>>>> languages. However, I just wonder the possibility of doing
>>>> this in emacs, the greatest editor ever :-)
>>>>
>>>
>>> C and C++ - the best programming languages for reading files.
>>
>> No.  There is no operator defined in C to read files.  (You have to use
>> an external library, such as a unix kernel or a POSIX library).
>>
>> In the case of C++ there is some standard library defined, but not to
>> read files, just to read sequences of bytes.  So you could argue that
>> it as some worth for that, but my files are very rarely sequences of
>> bytes...
>
> I think you missed the irony.

Probably :-/   But a lot of people think it's true...


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