[user911302966]

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.

[tptacek]

Upon hitting his website, you were one single click away (the "software" link, next to "about") from learning that he's the co-maintainer of Guile, a C implementation of Scheme.