Re: the Linux man-pages as an educational tool

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At 2026-08-03T01:08:32+0200, Arsen Arsenovi=C4=87 wrote:
> Alejandro Colomar <[email protected]> writes:
> > Most programmers can live in the safe bubble of <string.h>: those
> > functions always require a string as input, and always provide a
> > string as output.  Plain and simple.  It's difficult to write bugs
> > when using those.
> >
> > That's the rationale.
>=20
> I do not follow.
>=20
> C has no namespaces, let alone qualified imports.

That's true.

> The name of a header providing some function is thus inconsequential.

Then why not have one official big header file for the whole standard?

#include <stdlibc.h>

When you answer that to your own satisfaction, I suspect you'll have
little trouble following Alex's argument.

=2E..which doesn't mean you'll agree with it.

Regards,
Branden

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