Unix has generally had decent APIs, but every so often Unix people havebeen a bit too concerned with minimalism and storing data as efficientlyas possible. Several times this has invited in string-related APIs thatpractically beg for code to make mistakes, because of how they specifystring termination.

Here is an abstracted example. Consider an API where you use thefollowing structure:

struct dirent {    uint16_t  ino;    char      name[14];}

You will notice that there is nothing explicit to tell

I watched Oh! Edo Rocket several years ago (before I started writing Roving Thoughts )and enjoyed it quite a lot; ever since then I've felt that it was anunderappreciated gem, and I am glad to see people like Author discoverit .

(Yes, yes, technically Author 'discovered' it ages ago, back when itoriginally aired, and merely watched it recently. You all know what Imean. Ironically I think one of Author's old side comments about a bitin the first

It is mostly a coincidence that I wrote my previousentry on Panty & Stocking right after Author posted his roll call of the sleeping and dead .I watched the episode last night (after reading Aroduc's summary ,which pushed it up the 'I want to see this for myself' list) andimmediately wound up thinking about how to write up my reaction to it,since it's one of the few anime lately that I have had a distinctreaction to.

However, I can't deny that