There is a certain class of program that decides it knows better thanyou about when you should be able to stop its operation. The mostirritating way to do this is to catch ^C (and even ^\); such programswin a modest prize from me, usually awarded with 'kill -9'.

Yes, some operations are dangerous if interrupted half-way through andprograms need to protect themselves against them. Short operations. Itis very rare that a program needs to block signals for very long

A while back, thedailywtf.com ran this entry onC preprocessor abuse. Unfortunately (and in fact as noted in thecomments), this is nothing to the true devotee of turning C into adifferent language.

This preprocessor trail was blazed early on, in the V7 Bourne shell,written by Steve Bourne. The story goes that Bourne didn't really likeC all that much, and instead much preferred Algol. Armed with the newC preprocessor he saw the opportunity to fix this problem and createdwhat