1. C Programmers Disease The tendency of the undisciplined C programmer to set arbitrary but supposedly generous static limits on table sizes defined, if youre lucky, by constants in header files rather than taking the trouble to do proper dynamic storage allocation. If an application user later needs to put 68 elements into a table of size 50, the afflicted programmer reasons that he or she can easily reset the table size to 68 or even as much as 70, to allow for future expansion and recompile. This gives the programmer the comfortable feeling of having made the effort to satisfy the users unreasonable demands, and often affords the user multiple opportunities to explore the marvellous consequences of fandango on core. In severe cases of the disease, the programmer cannot comprehend why each fix of this kind seems only to further disgruntle the user. [Jargon File]
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