Date: Fri, 12 Jul 1996 08:26:18 -0400 (EDT) From: Christopher A Triebel To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com Message-Id: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE ---------------------------------------------------------------------------= --- From=20akroev AT sn DOT noFri Jul 12 08:19:43 1996 Date: 10 Jul 1996 20:26:22 +0200 From: Arne Knut Roev To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp Subject: Re: new to djgpp [The following text is in the "ISO-8859-1" character set] [Your display is set for the "US-ASCII" character set] [Some characters may be displayed incorrectly] In article <31DCC5EC DOT 5779 AT funcom DOT com>, P=E5l-Kristian Engstad wrote: >Also, C is extreme in the sense that you can do "almost everything". >"C" does _no_ range-checking. If you want to reformat the hard disk, you= =20 >can do so in "C"! Are you sure of this ? I would think reformatting a hard disk would be OS-dependent, and therefore beyond the scope of the ANSI/ISO standard(s). ---------------------------------------------------------------------------= --- I think what is meant is that in many higher level languages they keep=20 you away from the OS layer. I don't know about alot of newer stuff by=20 the ones I do know seem to be shy about creating OS dependent contols=20 such as MS-DOS direct interrupt calls. Unless things have changed from=20 a dozen years ago BASIC never offered such control as formatting disks,=20 at least not easily. In C/C++ it is just a matter of simple calls to=20 functions and setting a couple of register values in a structure, or=20 simpler if you know how to do assembly. This is just my take on the message. Thanks for listening. Chris "Software development is a state of writing better software to allow users = to think less. Someday we'll be cutting out the middle man having written th= e=20 software that will allow users and programmer's alike from having to think at all."