I don't know whether to laugh or cry at some of these anecdotes. As a final example, a buffer overflow checker flagged a bunch of errors of the form unsigne

I don't know whether to laugh or cry at some of these anecdotes. As a final example, a buffer overflow checker flagged a bunch of errors of the form unsigned p[4]; ... p[4] = 1; "No, ANSI lets you write 1 past the end of the array." After heated argument, the programmer said, "We'll have to agree to disagree." We could agree about the disagreement, though we couldn't quite comprehend it.