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Re:Controversial Programming Opinions (2012) by SiempreViernes on Friday December 04, 2020 @11:47AM (#25304478)
Yeah, it doesn't really read like a list of programmer flame-bait which I think is ultimately what the title implied.

I mean consider this example of a "controversial opinion":

> Print statements are a valid way to debug code.

I'd place this about as controversial as "functions with many arguments are an ok choice".

The fact that there is neither a statement about the proper indexing of arrays or which programming language to never use is clear evidence this list isn't about controversial topics.

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Re:Controversial Programming Opinions (2012) by iab on Friday December 04, 2020 @12:07PM (#25304825)
I prefer functions with no inputs, quite honestly . No outputs either. Also no internal logic. To hell with variables as well.
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Re:Controversial Programming Opinions (2012) by hazeii on Friday December 04, 2020 @03:29PM (#25307402)
Back in the day, compiling a Fortran program that didn't do any input or output would get you a "Program is trivial" message (and nothing else).
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Re:Controversial Programming Opinions (2012) by Igelau on Friday December 04, 2020 @12:29PM (#25305143)
Excerpt from The Heart Sutra, a TL;DR translation for Programmers
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