Based on that I will buy you your beverage of choice at any conference you choose :)
P:S: I've probably written commercial stuff you work with and also I don't give a shit if you give a shit, if you see where I am coming from. I have a pretty good idea of what the compiler will do and I will be pissed off if it doesn't do that. It normally does.
Thanks. I hope you didn't take my first comment as an insult.
What I meant by that is C is not just something you sit down with after skimming the specification and "bang out." There are years of community "inherited knowledge" on how to write C so it doesn't result in disaster. The very need for these practices exemplifies the flaws in C as a language -- by the very nature of working around these vulnerabilities, you acknowledge that they are vulnerabilities. Thus, if one doesn't see C's issues then one is doomed to C's mistakes (this sentence is very strange when read out loud).
P:S: I've probably written commercial stuff you work with and also I don't give a shit if you give a shit, if you see where I am coming from. I have a pretty good idea of what the compiler will do and I will be pissed off if it doesn't do that. It normally does.