ugliness in scanf(3)

[Doug Gwyn <gwyn>]

> Clearly I'm more than a little burned by being called a 'high priest' for
> merely spending 15 years reading Univac manuals and system code, to get to
> the point where I can *answer* questions from users too *lazy* to *read*
> the manuals...  Still, this sort of sillyness is exactly why I have a 
> hard time believing that Unix and C are "for real".

UNIX was developed by and for intelligent programmers.