>>19 How do you feel about cdr coding and GC-time list compaction?
For reasonable things like parsing config files or setting up a firewall or implementing a text editor that is; if a programmer did any consing (unless it's the kind that gets optimized out) in any tight loop that gets executed for more than 0.01s I would not only fire them but also douse them with gasoline and set them on fire, for humanity's sake.