> The easiest way to find someone who's inexperienced in C is to find someone who declares a function that takes no arguments with an empty pair of parentheses.

> The easiest way to find someone who's inexperienced in C is to find someone who declares a function that takes no arguments with an empty pair of parentheses. In C but not C++ you need to write "void" inside the parentheses. C11§6.7.6.3p14: > An identifier list declares only the identifiers of the parameters of the function. An empty list in a function declarator that is part of a definition of that function specifies that the function has no parameters. The empty list in a function declarator that is not part of a definition of that function specifies that no information about the number or types of the parameters is supplied. That declarator is part of a definition. Even if it were not, the elision of a function's formal parameter list does not matter very much if, like 'main', that function is usually not explicitly called.