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Advice (which I agree with) that conflicts with the author's previous post referenced in the first paragraph.

• lmm 6y ago
  I see that post as a double standard. Yes, libraries are mostly crap; that's because code is mostly crap. Fixing the file-writing implementation in a library may take more patience and tact than this author has, but it can be done; fixing what dozens of mediocre programmers wrote on their own is completely hopeless. If you want to talk about an attractive nuisance that lets people write code that sort-of works most of the time but's actually fundamentally broken, that's Unix - and C - all over.