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From: Kaz Kylheku <643-408-1753@kylheku.com>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.shell,comp.unix.programmer,comp.lang.misc
Subject: Re: Python (was Re: I did not inhale)
Date: Thu, 22 Aug 2024 17:38:45 -0000 (UTC)
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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:
>> 
>>>>
>>>> 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.
>>>>
>>>
>> 
>>> (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.
>
> 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.

-- 
TXR Programming Language: http://nongnu.org/txr
Cygnal: Cygwin Native Application Library: http://kylheku.com/cygnal
Mastodon: @Kazinator@mstdn.ca