My suspicion is that this is not a C programmer at all. Claiming that you've "written loads of it" certainly lends the author a cloak of credibility, but I don'

My suspicion is that this is not a C programmer at all. Claiming that you've "written loads of it" certainly lends the author a cloak of credibility, but I don't buy it. "This one, you really can't tell." A competent C programmer can absolutely discern what is happening... more importantly, though, is that the two examples don't do the same thing. I stopped reading at that point.