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I'm definitely guilty of writing some sick memory-trashjng bugs when I was first getting started as an intern. The best one had my team lead and a staff engineer puzzling over what the hell was going on. The second best one had someone hunting down my email and messaging me months after the internship ended just to cuss me out haha. Perhaps it is better I don't work in C anymore.

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I think you're probably being too hard on yourself. As far as I can tell, the Venn diagram of people who have written non-trivial amounts of C code used in the real world and people who have written memory corruption bugs is a circle.

It's concentric circles, and the "have written non-trivial amounts" circle is the inner one.

Fair point!

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