On Fri, 26 Jun 2009 10:54:15 +0100, David Cantrell wrote:
> You would have thought that people would have
> learned from one of K&R (I forget which) who said that their biggest
> mistake in designing C and the standard library was calling the function
> 'creat' instead of 'create'.
According to my sigfile (which has been known to be wrong), it was neither:
"... spell `creat' with an E."
-- Ken Thompson
Hmm, I think I'm changing that to the full quote, which the internet reliably
informs me is:
"If I had to do it over again? Hmm... I guess I'd spell 'creat' with an 'e'."
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