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Course those come from a primordial age when max symbol sizes and file names were limited. Circa 1975 you were asking for trouble with a file name like string_copy.c or file_control.c

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Also, I kind of like the short versions. They are not any more difficult to remember ("Hmm, was it CopyFile of FileCopy?") and you need to search for them the first time around anyway. And it does save the effort when typing.

Maybe it's just me but I find the short ones much harder. Was it strnCopy or strCopy etc.

And I mostly use some form of auto complete so I'm not worried about the effort saved from typing.

Also, if you glance at them, strcpy and strncpy look identical, which I find can be problematic.

I still don't remember if it is useradd or adduser - one is core linux command, other is script that also set ups home directory and stuff like that.

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