On Thursday, 9 January 2014 at 00:52:04 UTC, H. S. Teoh wrote:
On Wed, Jan 08, 2014 at 11:59:58PM +0000,
digitalmars-d-boun...@puremagic.com wrote:
On Wednesday, 8 January 2014 at 23:43:43 UTC, NoUseForAName
wrote:
[...]
>(I am not part of that majority, though). I mean C gave us
>classics like "atoi".. still reminds me of "ahoi" every time I
>read it. And I will never get over C++'s "cout" and "cin".
>See?
The absolute worst offender from the C days was creat(). I mean,
seriously?? I'm actually a fan of abbreviated names myself, but
that one
simply takes it to a whole 'nother level of wrong.
I don't mind cout, I hardly use cin, I try to avoid cerr, and
I've
never used clog… I mind how you configure iostreams though. It
looks
worse than printf, not sure how they managed that.
[...]
I hate iostream with a passion.
I am on the other side of the fence, enjoying iostream since
1994. :)
--
Paulo