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When is 'cloning', rather than reusing, a module acceptable design solution?
For this question, I'll give an example module to facilitate the discussion, Let's say the module is a calculation engine, It currently servers its purpose for its current audience. The requirement is ...
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Do most programmers copy and paste code?
I learned very early on that cutting & pasting somebody else's code takes longer in the long run that writing it yourself. In my opinion unless you really understand it, cut & paste code will ...
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Am I a code monkey?
I just tried integrating my website with facebook. I got a lot of copy-paste code from the facebook developers site. I just put the code and it works fine. Do you call this kind of programmers "code ...
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Is copy & paste programming bad?
With plain Google as well as Google Code search tools it is easy to find how to program using some resource or solve certain problems (such as create a Java class, or an FTP block in Perl, etc). So ...
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Is it ok to store code and use it later?
I've been programming for the many months.
What I've found is :
My team leader illustrates to me the project.
I start up with an empty project.
For many common tasks (like calling webservice, ...
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What's a good, concise way to explain the dangers of copy-paste programming to non-programmers?
I'm looking for a good analogy or metaphor that could illustrate the problems of copy-paste programming to non-programmers. I occasionally do code/system reviews for potential clients, and one of the ...
