Comment by bsenftner
4 hours ago
One of the first homework assignments when I learned C back in '83 was after a long lecture on how the string functions are fundamentally broken, and the class introduction to writing C was fixing all of them.
4 hours ago
One of the first homework assignments when I learned C back in '83 was after a long lecture on how the string functions are fundamentally broken, and the class introduction to writing C was fixing all of them.
My memory growing up is that making your own C library was basically an inevitable rite of passage for any aspiring programmer.
Yeah, it's a shame we never got something like boost for C. Every company I ever worked for had its own common C library solving these problems.