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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mel.connect.com.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!news.wildstar.net!cancer.vividnet.com!hunter.premier.net!bofh.dot!news.mathworks.com!fu-berlin.de!golden-gate.owl.de!uni-paderborn.de!news.rwth-aachen.de!news.rhrz.uni-bonn.de!saph2.physik.uni-bonn.de!juengst From: juengst@saph1.physik.uni-bonn.de (Henry G. Juengst) Newsgroups: comp.unix.misc,comp.unix.bsd.misc Subject: Re: How to delete files within C programs Date: 14 May 1996 17:14:40 GMT Organization: Institut fuer Strahlen- und Kernphysik Lines: 42 Sender: juengst@saph2.physik.uni-bonn.de (Henry G. Juengst) Distribution: world Message-ID: <4naf20$bdh@news.rhrz.uni-bonn.de> References: <Oum-El-Kheir.Benkahla-3004961724540001@mac-ugm-3.imag.fr> <4mq4o3$qkh@news.rhrz.uni-bonn.de> <4mqr1s$5ou@web.nmti.com> <4mr76q$t8i@news.rhrz.uni-bonn.de> <4msovu$aep@innocence.interface-business.de> <4mt9lm$32f@news.rhrz.uni-bonn.de> <4mv7jj$fl7@innocence.interface-business.de> <4mvdoj$6e2@news.rhrz.uni-bonn.de> <4mvov8$m5e@panix2.panix.com> <4n59up$33m@news.rhrz.uni-bonn.de> <4n76vv$29j@innocence.interface-business.de> <kaleb.832080109@exalt> Reply-To: juengst@saph1.physik.uni-bonn.de NNTP-Posting-Host: saph1.physik.uni-bonn.de Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.misc:22757 comp.unix.bsd.misc:1052 In article <kaleb.832080109@exalt>, kaleb@x.org (Kaleb KEITHLEY) writes: >juengst@saph1.physik.uni-bonn.de (Henry G. Juengst) wrote: > >> Most beginners do not remain beginners later, but although later it is >> much easier to remember what a function does if you can read it. >> 'unlink' and 'remove' are harmless examples. 'wctomb' and 'j0' might be >> better examples. > >I suppose it depends on your frame of reference and your experience >level with ANSI/ISO C. I for one instantly recognize that wctomb() >as the Wide-Char-TO-Multi-Byte string conversion function. > >It's really pretty silly to make vague generalizations. All you're >really doing with comments like the above is showing your ignorance. >Have you never heard of man pages? You ignore that you will not find the man pages if you do not know these names. Just try to look for 'Wide-Char-TO-Multi-Byte' or bessel functions. That is the reason why it is not simple for beginners. It is not a problem for me. The other point is that I would expect names like these from beginners, but not from people who made an operating system. You can also look into all those good books which present network examples with local variables called 'sin' etc.. This is the best starting-point for beginners. :-) > >-- > >Kaleb KEITHLEY Henry -- juengst@saph1.physik.uni-bonn.de [131.220.161.1] (Internet) omni:.de.uni-bonn.physik.saph1::juengst (DECnet/OSI, phase V) saph1::juengst [26.358] (DECnet, phase IV) Any opinions in this mail are my own.