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Re:The tyranny of the Hollerith punched card by kiruwa on Monday June 06, 2016 @04:20PM (#11849979)
> For the basic core of a language, shortening names is good.

You do have to admit the slight irony of the shortened string-handling function names in C, given this fact.

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Re:The tyranny of the Hollerith punched card by kazinator on Monday June 06, 2016 @04:24PM (#11850005)
You mean, the irony that the names are short, but mountains of code are dedicated to getting string handling in C, and still getting some of it wrong?
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