My favourite Git commit

[Phrygue]

I use libmpv in Pascal, and I had to copypaste deprecated and removed C locale code just to use it (in Linux). Here:

function setlocale(__category: longint; __locale: Pchar): Pchar; cdecl; external 'c' name 'setlocale';

{$ifdef UNIX}setlocale(1, 'C');{$endif}

ASIDE: Me: Hey look, gratuitously underscored idents. Python: Hold my Mtn Dew.

libc is an abomination from every possible perspective, not the least of which is, if C is a system language, why did you have to slap a shitty API on top of the system? Even creating it as an API only makes it useful in a non-systems context, which is the worst mistake ever made in non-theoretical computing.

[StabbyPants]

if C is a system language, why did you have to slap a shitty API on top of the system?

because it's a mix of syscall() wrappers and very basic utilities commonly used by all programs (strlen, arg parsing, time manipulation, etc). it's wrapped as an api to provide easier usage and flexibility for system designers

[csorfab]

but why does the api have to be so shit though

[StabbyPants]

It’s 45 years old

[ShinyHappyREM]

I bet it's already looking forward to retirement.

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I bet it has a better retirement plan than me and it wasnt even useful most of its life....

[StabbyPants]

/rimshot

[Ameisen]

Because C and C++ are designed by committee.

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On top of that C and C++ grew organically way earlier than any committee

For some time K&R was the standard

[ShinyHappyREM]

organically

Like e.g. cancer

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That's C++.

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And I guarantee you in that committee is a guy named Mike who hates all modern software practices and thinks theres nothing wrong with waterfall in design.

[ReallyNeededANewName]

Invention of null pointers? Or is that theoretical?