On Tue, Aug 6, 2013 at 9:10 PM, Richard A. O'Keefe <ok@cs.otago.ac.nz> wrote:

I bet you can find an abundance of C programmers who think that
"strcmp" is an intuitive name for string comparison (rather than compression, say).

Them and a small and slowly shrinking group of folks who find it intuitive because obviously only the first 6 characters of an imported function are significant :)

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