[zvrba]

I've read/maybe even briefly participated in a discussion about Zed's book a couple years ago, and the technical debate went like this:

Z: K&R's strcpy is broken, e.g., you can forget to null-terminate the string. Mine is safer.

Ohters: It's not broken, of course it'll do something unpredictable if you break its preconditions.

Z: strcpy is still broken.

Others: Your function will break too if you pass it the wrong length.

Z: This cannot happen, K&R strcpy is broken, mine is safe.