In fairness, they also gave us the joys of `strcpy(src_ptr, dest_ptr)` and `scanf("%s", str_ptr)`, which with the benefit of hindsight and many buffer overflows

In fairness, they also gave us the joys of `strcpy(src_ptr, dest_ptr)` and `scanf("%s", str_ptr)`, which with the benefit of hindsight and many buffer overflows later were a terrible idea.