I agree with the content of this article, but all the same my advice is usually the opposite - for reasons that its author sets out rather well in the table in

I agree with the content of this article, but all the same my advice is usually the opposite - for reasons that its author sets out rather well in the table in his follow-up article (https://blog.robertelder.org/signed-or-unsigned-part-2/ https://blog.robertelder.org/signed-or-unsigned-part-2/) I wrote a little piece about this myself once (http://soundsoftware.ac.uk/c-pitfall-unsigned.html http://soundsoftware.ac.uk/c-pitfall-unsigned.html) I suppose I would loosely characterise my view as - if your profession is "C programmer" and you really know what you're doing, you probably want to use unsigneds most of the time - if your profession is something else, e.g. signal processing researcher who has to translate an algorithm to C or C++, you are probably better off not using unsigneds at all.