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mitchalsup@aol.com (MitchAlsup1) writes:

> On Tue, 15 Oct 2024 21:26:29 +0000, Stefan Monnier wrote:
>
>>> 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".

That is a foolish statement.