> miod is 100% right.  memcpy is another committee hit job on
> practicality.  OMG bcopy wasn't invented here lets flip around the
> parameters foar moar bettar!!!!one!!!```~!~!Y~%!^%

Bullshit.   If you're going to rail against something at least
get the history correct.

System III Unix in 1982 had neither
memcpy came with System V in about 1983
bcopy came with 4.2 bsd in about 1983

If you grew up with BSD then bcopy was your friend.
If you grew up with System V then memcpy was your friend.

It is as simple as that.   Whichever one you learned first
tend to be the "natural" order, with the other somehow unnatural.
Until SVR4 and 4.4 BSD there wasn't much choice... you used
the one that came with your release.

/\/\arc

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