It Doesn't Hurt To Be Cautious

Content What are the 7 deadly sins of programming? John Purcell, Creator of CaveOfProgramming.com Answered OCt 30 : Upvoted by Hasis A Munaimin, IOl participant 43, 44. 45, ACM. ICPC World Finalist 2016 and Jessica Su, CS PhD student at Stanford 1. Using spaces instead of tabs. You should always, always use tabs, not spaces. 2. Using tabs instead of spaces. You should always, always, use spaces. 3. Not using auto-formatting. Forget all that tabsspaces rubbish, what's wrong with you - auto-format your code and then people won't have to look at your weird ideas about brackets and spaces. 4. Using IDEs, which have features such as auto-formatting and nicely- coloured buttons. All code should be written in vi or Emacs, thus ensuring the purity of the programming experience. 5. Not using IDEs. No-one wants to pay for all the time it's going to take you to type things that you could have done at the click of a button, or scroll up and down using some ridiculous key combination invoked using LISP. 6. Failing to learn C and C. It's really important to learn the two absolute essential languages. You think Java is just as good? Fine, write me a real-time control system for racing cars in Java and I'll believe you. 7. Learning C or C when you could be using something modern like Java instead. Admit it - all your schedules involving C or C overrun by five years. And even then the software turns out to have critical flaws that Java would not even have allowed vou to create. 8. Overrunning the end of an array. 124.8k Views 3.448 Upvotes

Content BBQGiraffe char" myString "sex"; scurex Today at 9:38 PM YOU MOTHERFUCKER NO I WILL NOT ALLOW THAT BBQGiraffe Today at 9:38 PM what scurex Today at 9:39 PM YOURE JUST MAKING A FUCKING ARRAY AND PRETEND ITS A STRING (edited) BBQGiraffe Today at 9:39 PM what the fuck do you think a string is you moron an array of bytes scurex Today at 9:39 PM YES BUT HIDE IT UGLY BBQGiraffe Today at 9:39 PM lol scurex Today at 9:39 PM thats disgusting

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The evolution of tech vocabulary is brutal! Back in the day, we had precise terminology like "application," "program," and "operating system." Now? Everything's just an "app." Need to compile code? There's an app for that. Running a critical system daemon? Just another app, bro. Even your meticulously crafted shell scripts? Yep, apps. It's like watching your carefully organized toolbox get dumped into a single drawer labeled "stuff that does things." The smug face in the corner is every marketing department that successfully convinced us precision is overrated. Who needs technical accuracy when you can have simplicity?

Somebody's calculator function clearly got confused with their first programming lesson! Instead of returning 35 (7×5), this calculator proudly outputs "Hello World" like it just graduated from Coding 101. Classic case of a variable type mismatch—calculator.js expected numbers but got existential instead. The dev probably reused that "Hello World" function they wrote 5 minutes earlier and forgot to change the return value. That's what happens when you code at 3 AM fueled by nothing but energy drinks and stackoverflow copy-pasta.

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