That's an interesting story, thanks for sharing. However, it is the reason that (what feels like) every single C function has a footnote, along the lines of "*

That's an interesting story, thanks for sharing. However, it is the reason that (what feels like) every single C function has a footnote, along the lines of "*except on FordBAT OS, where mkdir doesn't create a directory, all floats are inf, and negatives are positive -- because it seemed convenient"