I'd been using C for a couple years in 1989, and "never use gets()" was advice that had reached me. I don't remember how widespread that was. The style was jus

I'd been using C for a couple years in 1989, and "never use gets()" was advice that had reached me. I don't remember how widespread that was. The style was just as unusual at the time, though I think there was more variety in style generally, and lower standards most places (most of us didn't have open source or internet discussion to learn from).