The C Paradox

If gets() is so dangerous and should never be used,

Why was it created in first place and kept in the C standard until now?

>>88

You're correct, albeit no need to include POSIX headers to 'be' in POSIX. Just by choosing a POSIX environment (#define _POSIX_C_SOURCE) you're already limited to their namespace.


>>89

It does suck steel balls, though much better as a standard than ANSI/ISO is.