Where ' s the booty ? <| sep |> His initial argument wasn ' t particularly bad . He was just saying that KR was written for a preinternet time and does not have the emphasis on defensive programming required in modern C or any language programming of course , his countless mistakes elsewhere in the book hardly gives one confidence in Zed ' s ability to teach secure programming . Also he makes a good point in the entire book to introduce readers to the modern C library ecosystem on Unix , which is absent in KR and similar books focusing only on the standard . The real fiasco over his KR rebuttal was that people criticizing his chapter hurt his feelings , forcing him to replace it with a juvenile redaction . <| sep |> master forgive me