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.

>>40
But that's not mutable state.
Good point.

Can my global variable be seen from ISS? Where's the limit?
Close orbit shouldn't be a major problem, but the latency to even the closest habitable planet, Mars, is between 4 and 20 minutes.

>>2-13
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YOU THINK YOU'RE THOUGH, HUH?

I WORK AT THE SUPERCOMPUTER CENTER OF ATOMIC WEAPON

NOW ASK UOR QUESTION!

2 is the only true you, you spaghetti coding grandpa. only EXPERT PROGRAMMER can be smart enough to avoid gotos with flags and global variables with proper properties and parameters sage

>>40
even if it's just one guaranteed push back.

SO FUKIN WAT?

ptr = malloc(sizeof *ptr);

NOW DAT'S THINKING OUTSIDE OF DA BOX, EVEN IF malloc WILL RETURN A NULL POINTER ON EVERY SINGLE FUKIN CALL. U CAN CHECK WHETHER ungetc SUCCEEDED BY CHECKING ITS RETURN VALUE, U FUKIN STACK BOI. GO REED DA FUKIN STANDARD. IF U GOT A SHITTY C IMPLEMENTATION THEN U GOT A SHITTY C IMPLEMENTATION, EVEN IF IT'S STANDARD-COMPLIANT.

>>42
I fucking love you.

I HATE AMERICA

>>8
>``errors.''
>`` ""
why you do this
especially when talking about something meant to improve formatting

>>48
``because you're a ``cocksucking ``faggot''''''

>>48
the gnu stallman does it

>>48
go the fuck back to /g/