Re^2: retiring gets(3)

[joe at modcomp.UUCP]

David Collier-Brown (yunexus!lethe!dave) writes:

>   This raises the interesting, and possibly invidious, question of
> why the ANSI C standard includes gets...  It may prove advisable to
> ask for its elimination on the next (NOT! current) round of
> standardization, and a request from the (U.S) DOD Computer Security
> Center (sic) for an exception in the validation suite...

Any elimination of gets will have to be done now, not later.  Just look at
the experiences the Fortran 8x committee has had in trying to deprecate old
features.  And deprecation isn't even as controversial as removal ...

Joe Korty
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