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[QUOTE="Richard G. Riley, post: 2454313"]
Yes you are :) Scare mongerer you ... Sounds more like you modified
his program to make him pap his kecks ...

It was clearly a PC then? DOS?

If he had done an advanced C course and an Intermediate C course then
he presumably knew about buffer issues in C. It is impossible that he
didnt or his intermediate and his advanced programs would have failed too.

Good C programmers frequently get the count wrong on array traversal :
and it doesnt cause your hard disk to get erased. All programmers are
human.

Well, in 99.99999999999999% of the cases. The old "n-1" will haunt C
programmers for years no matter good : its experience which means we
avoid it most of the time.

(Oh and did I mention a good debugger would catch it too ..)

Alternatively, jump in there with a good book and have a lot fun
learning the language. If you worried that your hard disk would melt
for every out of control memory access you have in C then trust me, C
would be history by now.
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