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> C programmers like their overly concise naming schemes don’t they It's a holdover from 1970s-era linkers, many of which required each exported symbol to be u
by acuozzo 2y ago
> C programmers like their overly concise naming schemes don’t they
It's a holdover from 1970s-era linkers, many of which required each exported symbol to be unique within the first six or so characters.
- oersted 2y agoThis is helpful, thanks. And I assume that no one imagined that you would need more variants of strcpy to begin with, strncpy is a pretty good name too, and then it's hard to break the pattern. Similar situations with lots of other names. I just wish that C style used fewer single char names and hard-to-decipher acronyms. Smart programmers can't read minds either...