Top stupidest programming polemics

1. Gotos considered evil
For too long, schools have been successfully spreading the fallacy that gotos should never be used. Whenever I write code for someone and I use a goto, someone always complain:
"Man, you used gotos to [Handle errors/Break out of multiple loops/we]"
So knowing usually the kind of people I'm dealing with I respond:
"Why?"
But people always fail to know the real reason gotos used to be bashed on:
"They're just evil..."

2. Tabs vs. Spaces for indentation
Everyone using a real text editor knows that tabs are by far superior to spaces. There are easily at least five times more reasons to use tabs than to use spaces. Even worse than that, the reason I hear the most often to use spaces is that "tabs don't have the same number of spaces in text editors" while IT IS THE WHOLE FUCKING IDEA OF USING TABS, ANYONE CAN SEE AS MANY SPACES AS THEY WANT.


3. Global variables are bad

No. Just like gotos, they are when idiots don't know when to use them.

>>21
WAT DA FUK IS UR PROBLEM?

>>26,27
gets AND fgets DO DIFFERENT THINGS YA RETOIDZ. gets IZ FOR SCRUNCHERS AND fgets IZ FOR FOLDERS. DATS WAT WE DECIDED WEN WE WERE ALL SITTIN' AROUND PLANNIN' DESE FUNCTIONS.

ANYWAY,

YAINT THOUGHT ABOUT ungetc. YAINT THOUGHT ABOUT DA SITUATIONS WHERE U CAN MAKE ASSUMPTIONZ ABOUT DA DEVICE ASSOCIATED WITH stdin. YAINT THOUGHT ABOUT DA RESTRICTIONS UR C IMPLEMENTATION CAN PLACE ON stdin. YAINT RED DA FUCKIN STANDARD.

I BEEN CHEESED OFF SINCE DEM FAT CATS AT DA ISO YANKED IT OUT OF DA C LIBRARY. I AIN'T BEEN SLEEPIN' WELL EVER SINCE DEN, AND I BEEN YELLIN' AT ALL U FUCKIN WHIPPERSNAPPERS AS A RESULT OF DAT. DEY TRASHED MY FAVOURITE METHOD OF WASTING CLOCK CYCLES, DOSE FUCKIN HYENAS DID. BUT DEY GOT TO DEANIS RICKY WORSE DAN DEY GOT TO ME. I'LL TELL YA DAT FUKIN MUCH.