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Path: ...!weretis.net!feeder8.news.weretis.net!eternal-september.org!feeder3.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Malcolm McLean <malcolm.arthur.mclean@gmail.com> Newsgroups: comp.lang.c Subject: Re: Running an editor from ANSI C Date: Fri, 7 Jun 2024 13:47:12 +0100 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 19 Message-ID: <v3uvgg$22nnp$2@dont-email.me> References: <v3pge7$uf2i$1@dont-email.me> <v3r2pl$16mtl$1@dont-email.me> <v3r7v8$1b57j$1@dont-email.me> <v3rek5$1c4i5$1@dont-email.me> <v3rrtm$1e6g8$1@dont-email.me> <v3ru84$1eafb$1@dont-email.me> <87o78dzw1a.fsf@nosuchdomain.example.com> <v3tkmb$1o860$3@dont-email.me> <v3uk0l$20s0s$2@dont-email.me> <v3uoeo$21g4g$5@dont-email.me> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Injection-Date: Fri, 07 Jun 2024 14:47:13 +0200 (CEST) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="3d5cf5214f2d8b45c65425247320c56d"; logging-data="2187001"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1/TCtfthwxehHy7r3bvG1vAMBR3CSaX1mI=" User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird Cancel-Lock: sha1:7jqN/QuC3Bn7I1YA9YDU87ZlcJY= Content-Language: en-GB In-Reply-To: <v3uoeo$21g4g$5@dont-email.me> Bytes: 2127 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. -- Check out Basic Algorithms and my other books: https://www.lulu.com/spotlight/bgy1mm