People should also not forget that the C culture comes from a age when the philosophy of letting your executable be as simple as possible, do only one thing and

People should also not forget that the C culture comes from a age when the philosophy of letting your executable be as simple as possible, do only one thing and do it perfectly & interoperable was so prevalent it did not need discussion. It's a much different ecosystem compared to today; thousands of abstractions, tons of includes, unknown functions etc. In one environment it's "ok" to make "a" mistake, in another it ain't.