"broli" writes:
>i looked up a few on the internet but it seems there is way too much
contradictions. It doesn't seem like K & R 2 covers it either.
One possible hotbed of contradictions is to compare this newsgroup
commentary with K&R. K&R covers *all* the functions and does not give any
editorial content on which ones to use, which should be favored and so on.
After several years of experience with careless (or whatever) coding, some
of the functions are considered by the mavens as dangerous and unfit to
use. A little time spent following some of the threads on this subject on
this newsgroup exposes the pitfalls involved with some of the verboten
functions. Think of a monkey typing aimlessly for hours in response to a
simple, single request for "Age ?" to see a lot of these problems. Pretend
that after 50 years or so a human intervenes and presses the Enter key.