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From: Malcolm McLean
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: Running an editor from ANSI C
Date: Fri, 7 Jun 2024 13:47:12 +0100
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On 07/06/2024 11:46, 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,
> plus you get access to a whole lot more besides.
>
> The fact that cases keep arising where POSIX functionality would solve
> problems that are discussed in this group belies your point.
>
Yes. Nothing is more annoying. I'm itching to write a Baby Text Editor
for Baby X. It would be just perfect for the project. But it's virtually
impossible to write a decent text editor without using Posix.
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