Re: Running an editor from ANSI C

On 6/7/24 06:46, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:

On Fri, 7 Jun 2024 11:31:01 +0200, David Brown wrote:
 

But many people have lots of use of programming in C without any kind of
POSIX functionality ...

 
And all those same programs work in the presence of POSIX functionality,

Even those that rely upon some other operating system's corresponding
functionality instead? If I write C code that makes lots of VMS system
calls (which I did a few decades ago, though I no longer remember the
details), would it still have worked correctly under POSIX?

You're right that C is not complete, but POSIX isn't the only thing you
can add to make it complete. Of the available options, I do prefer
POSIX, but POSIX is not the be-all and end-all of operating systems.