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by greenlakejake 4596 days ago
He asked me to implement strcpy(). He thought it was strcpy(from, to) - it's strcpy(to, from).
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Interesting. I bet a big part of your win was not just that you were right, but that you conveyed your disagreement without being a d*ck about it. That's a lot harder than being right.
True enough. I just pointed to the K&R on his bookcase and said "Look it up".