C Programmer's Disease: n. The tendency of the undisciplined C
programmer to set arbitrary but supposedly generous static limits on
table sizes (defined, if you're lucky, by constants in header files)
rather than taking the trouble to do proper dynamic storage
allocation. If an application user later needs to put 68 elements
into a table of size 50, the afflicted programmer reasons that he or
she can easily reset the table size to 68 (or even as much as 70, to
allow for future expansion) and recompile. This gives the
programmer the comfortable feeling of having made the effort to
satisfy the user's (unreasonable) demands, and often affords the
user multiple opportunities to explore the marvelous consequences of
fandango on core. In severe cases of the disease, the programmer
cannot comprehend why each fix of this kind seems only to further
disgruntle the user.
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