printf() considered garbage

Why not just use puts()? Is formatting your own strings properly really so hard? Maybe if you went to a school with a name that ended in `.com'. If that's the case, enjoy your security holes when you fuck up and put an %n somewhere or do something stupid like printf(str) and loosing buffer overflows all over the place. Not only that, but it's inefficient and bloated. I am sick and tired of seeing new programmers wasting CPU time and memory to run this huge, buggy function.

In general, it's never a bad idea to use something simpler if available.

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Not to mention format strings are better for localisation. (They still suck though. The Right Thing would be the ability to patch entire functions at run-time, seamlessly (i.e. without “dynamic” library nonsense). It would also help with different calendars, etc. as well as allow the extension of programs at run-time.)

(continued, explaining why “format strings are better for localisation”)

Format strings are functions written in domain-specific languages. In effect, systems such as GNU gettext are run-time function loaders.