When's the last time you used duct tape on a duct?

An initial underscore already conveys strong feelings of magicalness to a C programmer.

Let us be charitable, and call it a misleading feature.

Would you trust the linguistic intuitions of someone who has been studying Latin or Greek for three days?

Programmers can be lazy.

There's some entertainment value in watching people juggle nitroglycerin.

This does not mean that some of us should not want, in a rather dispassionate sort of way, to put a bullet through csh's head.