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From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
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> There is an advantage to the C approach of separating out some
> facilities and supplying them only in the standard library.

It goes a bit further: for a general purpose language, any existing
functionality that cannot be written using the language is a sign of
a weakness because it shows that despite being "general purpose" it
fails to cover this specific "purpose".

In an ideal world, it would be better if we could define `malloc` and
`memmove` efficiently in standard C, but at least they can be
implemented in non-standard C.


        Stefan