Let's go through some of your "points". The comparison with Torvalds is bizarre. Linus has done an enormous amount of self-promotion (warranted as it is), and

Let's go through some of your "points". The comparison with Torvalds is bizarre. Linus has done an enormous amount of self-promotion (warranted as it is), and even admits to having an ego the size of Joe's biceps. So I don't know what point you're trying to make there. Next and most importantly. While you (a bastard love-child of Kernighan perhaps) may find this feature banal, a decent number of C programmers aren't familiar with this method; and if they are, they haven't done shit with it. So hating on someone for actually writing free code that makes a bunch of dev's lives easier is, well, just kinda jealous. Lastly. If a comment like your comment, does, in fact, generate a large number of 'U Mad' replies -- well, that is strong evidence that you are, in fact, mad. (btw, Joe is not 20 years old. "20" actually refers to the number of women Joe sleeps with in a typical night.)