Re: Python (was Re: I did not inhale)

On 2024-08-22, Bart <bc@freeuk.com> wrote:

On 22/08/2024 17:31, Scott Lurndal wrote:

Bart <bc@freeuk.com> writes:

On 22/08/2024 16:28, Kaz Kylheku wrote:

 

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For the TXR project I use a POSIX layer called Cygnal (see signature
below). It gives a decent Windows port which preserves most of the
functionality. All the POSIX stuff in the TXR Lisp standard library just
works. The interactive listener ("REPL") with history and editing just
works, right in your cmd.exe console.
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(It's also not clear how well your product manages to use POSIX under
pure Windows, or whether you have to drag this other thing called 'CygWin'.

 
He specified in the paragraph to which you responded the posix
interposer he used.

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So this is only indirectly using POSIX under Windows.

That is correct; the Microsoft POSIX subsystem isn't used, if that's
what you mean by "direct".

It's not designed to be usable, as far as I know.

POSIX is an interface specification which can be implemented on top
of Win32 calls. If you have that, then many POSIX programs work without
modification or without a lot of modification.

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