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Rick, I fear you misunderstand. It is the general run of C coders who insist upon finding out just how much they can get away with. I hear the refreain oops.. make that refrain, over and over again. "We don't want strong type checking because we want the compiler to assume we know what we are doing." Most C programmers do not cast everything, probably because it would destroy most of their argument about the relative terseness of the language. I would also pointout that the best way to learn a language is to look at the examples of others, and I would suggest that most C programs (read most as >80%) are not as you describe, but are haphazard in their casting, sloppy in other ways, and generally poor by your definition. You are right about not using it if I don't like it. I don't, and I don't. I am not a fanatic about not using it, and have been known to write C on occasion, but much prefer languages that have more strict rules about how your source is treated. Regards, Larry.