Re: Reading file in emacs

[Andreas Politz <politza@fh-trier.de>]

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.

-ap