File-handling

Abstract

Very early on in this book I remarked on the satisfyingly consistent nature of C compilers. Generally, sins are those of omission (float or typedef may not be implemented for instance) rather than those of juggling with the syntax or giving library functions nonstandard features.

Alice could see, as well as if she were looking over their shoulders, that all the jurors were writing down “stupid things!” on their slates, and she could even make out that one of them didn’t know how to spell “stupid”, and that he had to ask his neighbor to tell him. “A nice muddle their slates’ll be in, before the trial’s over” thought Alice.

Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland