Long-held, incorrect programming assumptions [closed]

Answer 1

That I should have only one exit point from a function/method.

Answer 2

I thought I should move towards abstracting as much as possible. I got hit in the head major with this, because of too much intertwined little bits of functionality.

Now I try keep things as simple and decoupled as possible. Refactoring to make something abstract is much easier than predicting how I need to abstract something.

Thus I moved from developing the framework that rules them all, to snippets of functionality that get the job done. Never looked back, except when I think about the time I naively thought I would be the one developing the next big thing.

Answer 3

That anything other than insertion/bubble sort was quite simply dark magic.

Answer 4

That XML would be a truly interoperable and human readable data format.

Answer 5

That bugfree software was possible.

Answer 6

I thought that static typing was sitting very still at your keyboard.