Oliver Graf <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >   Nope.  I just wish that people had designed decent API's in the
> > first place.  Functions returning (or using) static storage are
> > ridiculous.  e.g. strtok(), gethostbyname(), etc.
> 
> In punch-card times parallel punching was not so common, it seems.

  It's not just that... creat() without the 'e', getc() returns 'int',
not 'char'...

  There's a general approach to API design which can be summarized as
"stop trying to be cute, and do the simplest, stupidest, and most
straight-forward thing possible"

  Alan DeKok.

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