Re: why not use more functionality from the posix standard libc ?

[Scott Morgan <blumf@...>]

On 10/05/2019 04:16, Jim wrote:
> but introducing an extra lib/header dependency by default (readline)
> without using important basic functions (like chdir, rmdir, chmod, ...)
> provided by libc (that gets linked in anyway) seems pretty odd to me.
> especially since the platform can be detected easily.

readline is just for the (optional) stand-alone executable, not the
language itself, which needs to be as portable as possible (i.e. ANSI C
only)

Scott