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On Sat, 07 Feb 2026 15:36:18 +0000, Richard Kettlewell wrote:


> It’s not like Java has a monopoly on being arbitrary and weird!
> 
>   int fputs(const char *s, FILE *stream);
>   int fprintf(FILE *stream, const char *format, ...);
> 
> Whether the stream argument is first or last depends which function
> you’re using.

After all these years I use 'man fputs' more than I should. Then you throw 
in the similar functions that take an int file descriptor rather than a 
FILE*. 

I'd still rather deal with that arbitrariness than C++'s streams.