== Quote from retard (r...@tard.com.invalid)'s article > Mon, 23 Nov 2009 17:14:54 +0000, dsimcha wrote: > [snip] > > as opposed to the > > Java way of having to use 5 different classes just to read in a file > > line by line in the default character encoding. > That's a library issue. Has nothing to do with the language.
I agree completely, but for all practical purposes basic parts of the standard library that are used by almost everyone are part of the language. Heck, in many languages (D being one of them) you can't even write a canonical hello world program w/o the standard lib.
