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by marginalia_nu 1699 days ago
C itself is actually a pretty good example of where this fails as well. Its standard library is usually more macros than code. It's necessary if you are going to ship portable code that deals with every conceivable architecture and endianness and permutation of toolchain from 1976 until now, but it's not how most C code looks.

K&R is a much more meaningful guide than unistd.h.