JQuery?

I take speaking in public... you take the rest :-D

C is fine, just stay away from function pointers...
And free your malloc...

Sadly it's becoming true... sadly said programmers are not / cannot do anything about it.

ha ha ha!!!
+++1

Java's spec is longer because it's just more verbose, it's one of the slowest language specs to catch up to the times...
When is Java 8 release date?

ditto... I have no one to bounce ideas off except the wall

citation needed

+1

Assuming your BIOS has the option to boot from USB... yes?

"reasonable future changes" is key based on the experience at hand.

+1

So the meta data indicated to convert strings to ints otherwise they meant to be used as a code or something.
Sounds like you got lucky, those assumptions could come back to bite you. It's best to confirm with the domain expert, never assume!