I thought 'atoi' was just some acronym wtf who thought it would be a good idea to name a parse function 'atoi'?

Same guy who made atol ! *

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@spl0 did you just meta-pun me?

Doesn't atoi stand for ASCII to Integer ?

@skonteam yes

You see @RazorSh4rk, back in the old days we had to punch each character by hand into FORTRAN cards, and programs were delivered by telegram which charged by the letter. So we basically had to write everything in what nowadays is called "minified javascript". Life was a little easier once I got one of them 4K screens... 4000 characters that is: 80 columns and a whopping 50 rows of text! Oh, it was heavenly.

@wmhilton that was actually educational, thank you

Oh god, no that was parody! I'm a 90's child. *Programs were never sent by telegram!* (that I know of)

@wmhilton actually I sometimes use Telegram for sending code to friends haha

@wmhilton no, i want to believe now