Well, truth be told, I'm a bit of an interloper. I'm quite old and C is my 'native tongue', although I haven't really programmed in it for years, until recentl

Well, truth be told, I'm a bit of an interloper. I'm quite old and C is my 'native tongue', although I haven't really programmed in it for years, until recently. At the beginning of my career, I spent fourish years professionally writing K&R C. Before that I had convinced my profs that I could submit my assignments in C rather than the mainframe Pascal that was being used by the other students. The balance has been spent in Smalltalk, Java, Python, etc. I must say that I really like the re-adjustment. Even though there are 'endless banks of RAM', C forces the programmer to be stingy with memory and come up with neat hacks, simply to avoid the enormous pain of being too clever. Using malloc() is like lying. You've got to remember them all.