Re: Structure Pointer

From: Keith Thompson <kst-u@xxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 23 Feb 2007 11:08:17 -0800

"santosh" <santosh.k83@xxxxxxxxx> writes:

u plz wrote:

On Fri, 23 Feb 2007 00:06:33 -0800, jaysome wrote:

I'm really curious as to why you chose to name your struct "creat_table"
instead of "create_table". We had an incompetent programmer working for
us who chose to use the same naming convention, and we always wondered
why in the world he chose to omit the final 'e' in "create". I'm not
saying you're incompetent--I just want to know what your rationale is
behind choosing "creat" (which we pronounce "kreet") over "create".

OT: Ken Thompson said this about the creat() function call in Unix:

"If I had to do it over again? Hmm... I guess I'd spell 'creat' with an
'e'."

He (Ken) said that in jest. There're far more cryptic calls like brk.

But "break" is a keyword.

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