Re: Running an editor from ANSI C

On 07/06/2024 15:48, David Brown wrote:

On 07/06/2024 12:46, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:

On Fri, 7 Jun 2024 11:31:01 +0200, David Brown wrote:
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But many people have lots of use of programming in C without any kind of
POSIX functionality ...

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And all those same programs work in the presence of POSIX functionality,
plus you get access to a whole lot more besides.

 No, they do not.
 And even if POSIX functionality were "present", whatever you mean by that, it would be of no help to many C programs.
 

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The fact that cases keep arising where POSIX functionality would solve
problems that are discussed in this group belies your point.

 There's no doubt that for some C programming, there are POSIX functions that could help.  And no doubt that this is the case for Malcolm's project.
 That does not in any way demonstrate that POSIX is required for all C programming, or that C is "essentially crippled" if POSIX is not available.
 

Any idiot can write a shell using Posix.
The whole point is to it in pure C. Without a single call to a function that isn't in the C standard library.
And make it fully functional. A real shell, that people will want to really use. That's my hobby project. I'm a free man now. I've got the time. I don't have to write code that makes money any more.
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