> For almost everything you can imagine doing, from image manipulation to send e-mail, there is some (poorly conceived) API. My favorite example of this: http

> For almost everything you can imagine doing, from image manipulation to send e-mail, there is some (poorly conceived) API. My favorite example of this: http://php.net/manual/en/function.gzgetss.php http://php.net/manual/en/function.gzgetss.php It tickles me seven shades of pink that this function is built into the language.