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Copypasta is evil

Name: Anonymous 2007-01-12 11:25

I declare copypasta and design patterns, save for very rare exceptions, are sign of a sucky programmer or a sucky non-functional language at work. Programmer editors should have an option to produce a warning when you paste more than two lines or 80 non-whitespace characters, telling you that you are doing something wrong.

When working with a decent language, and by decent I mean anything that allows you to barely work with dynamic functions, so anything from PHP counts, I can hardly think of a situation where you'd need to copypasta your code, let alone use a professional enterprise best-practices design pattern.

Name: Anonymous 2007-01-20 13:07

I've had to copypasta code once (ONCE) when I had to implement something deeply mathematically complex that I couldn't understand or figure out from shoddily-written tutorials on the matter.  Is copypasta code a problem if the code is public domain and you give credit to the original coder anyway?

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