[plug] [link] Programming languages - and their faults

[James Devenish]

Maybe I'm just humour-impaired, but...

In message <3EC21703.6050506 at postnewspapers.com.au>
on Wed, May 14, 2003 at 06:14:27PM +0800, Craig Ringer wrote:
> It's often used inappropriately.

That's not a flaw in C per se.

> what are the differences between execl, execlp, execle, execv, and 
> execvp? If you're not using these every day, you'll be hitting man 3 
> exec often.

The same could be said about any function or construct in any language.
I don't use the multi-argument form of the print % syntax in Python
every day, so I have to look it up every time I want to use it.