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- From: okes@essex.ac.uk (Simon Oke)
- Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers
- Subject: Re: command abbreviation
- Message-ID: <OKES.92Nov16125818@SunLab40.essex.ac.uk>
- Date: 16 Nov 92 12:58:18 GMT
- References: <1992Nov13.190208.17876@cubic.com>
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- Organization: Department of Computer Science, University of Essex, UK.
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- In-reply-to: hees@cubic.com's message of 13 Nov 92 19:02:08 GMT
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- In article <1992Nov13.190208.17876@cubic.com> hees@cubic.com (Phil Hees) writes:
- | In addition, the standard C library routines use the same ordering.
- | For example:
- |
- | strcpy(dest, source);
- |
- Blurgh! This is one of the things about the libraries that I *HATE*.
- I find it much easier to remember "copy src (to) dest" than the other way.
- Makes programming a 68000 fun.
-
- | I always use the (dest [,dest], src [,src]) ordering for my own function
- | calls, and really get locked into this mindset, to the point that I often
- | find myself checking the man page to reassure myself that I am using the
- | correct order for the cp (Unix) or copy (VMS, DOS) commands.
- |
- You are seriously deranged!
-
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