'''http://i.imgur.com/95IVsDF.gif%|%evil'''? Nothing is either good or bad but [http://www.opensourceshakespeare.org/views/plays/play_view.php?WorkID=hamlet&Act=2&Scene=2&Scope=scene%|%thinking makes it so], but let's see ... [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Combinatorial_explosion%|%combinatorial explosion]: the enemy within and the road to enlightenment `[eval]`: the gateway to [hell] [Why Tcl has no GOTO command%|%goto]: maybe it's evil, or maybe it's just misunderstood [injection attack%|%code injection]: this one is a doozy [Microsoft]: Evil Incorprated [object orientation%|%object-oriented programming]: will turn you into a marxist, or at least a newt [http://www.paulgraham.com/knuth.html%|%premature optimisation]: [http://www-cs-faculty.stanford.edu/~uno/don.gif] [https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/1/16/Drevil_million_dollars.jpg] [race condition%|%race conditions]: the vampires of the programming world [Richard Stallman]: [http://oreilly.com/openbook/freedom/ch11.html%|%Pulled] a [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shoe-banging_incident%|%Kruschchev] on [John Ousterhout%|%John] [self-modifying code]: simply twisted side effects: the bane of [functional programming%|%functional programmers] [Unicode%|%surrogate pairs]: the true evil twins [Update considered harmful%|%Update]: masquerading as a little friend ** See Also ** [Bad Thing]: <> design