Of course it did not require one. On those days GUIs were rare, and if you want to develop for Unix, C was the only option.
C got famous because of Unix. C on its own would never had survived as a language. "so" <s...@so.do> wrote in message news:op.vkhvb01i7dt...@so-pc... >I guess it is wording. > Hmm say... > > Does Java come with a standard gui library? Yes. > Does C come with a standard gui library? No. > > C didn't need a gui library to be successful, and didn't come with one. > On the other hand Java/C# have to have one, packed, and they do come with > (at least)one. > > If your language has a "system programming" in its feature lists, these > kind of libraries have very low priority, let alone specific IDE. > > On Wed, 13 Oct 2010 06:00:16 +0300, Jimmy Cao <jcao...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> I'm not quite understanding your argument. >> C and C++ do have *actual* IDE's for them, such as Visual Studio. > > -- > Using Opera's revolutionary e-mail client: http://www.opera.com/mail/