On Wed, Jan 23, 2013 at 05:56:14PM +0000, Michael Spacefalcon wrote:
Ronald Natalie <ron(a)ronnatalie.com> wrote:
I suspect strcpy arrived with the "portable
I/O library", an abomination
that eventually evolved into the stdio library and to this day is still
stinking up the standard C language.
What's so bad about stdio? That's a genuine question - I've never had
a reason to dislike stdio...
Well, there are little incompats that make cross platform unpleasant.
We (bitkeeper source management guys) gave up and imported the NetBSD
stdio library and ship that. Which did enable some fun enhancements.
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