Why do our programs need to read input and write output?

Re:Why do our programs need to read input and write output? by cortesoft on Sunday October 08, 2017 @02:50PM (#15429392)

You say 'importing urls', but what is going to serve the content at that URL? A server.

I dont know what it means by saying there is no input or output... reading from a URL is an input. It is an I/O operation to pull data from a network stream.

Even the whole writing functions to files things is an input and output situation. Just because you change the words doesn't change what it is doing.

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Re:Why do our programs need to read input and write output? by Gabriel439 on Sunday October 08, 2017 @04:30PM (#15429855)

Yes, but it's a restricted set of input and output: the only thing you can do is import other code. You can't, say, launch missiles or delete files unless the compiler/interpreter allows it

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