Re: Running an editor from ANSI C

On 07/06/2024 01:36, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:

On Thu, 06 Jun 2024 12:54:57 -0700, Keith Thompson wrote:
 

(mkstemp() is more flexible, but is not defined by ISO C.)

 I’ve said this before: C is essentially crippled without a POSIX layer
underneath.

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Yes. It's a disaster. You can't do much without the arrow keys and the ability to read the keyboard as the user preses the keys, with a kbhit(). And that would release ANSI C for games and goodness knows what else. But mainly games. That's the end point of programming, after all.
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