Copy-and-paste programming, sometimes referred to as just pasting, is the production of highly repetitive computer programming code, as produced by copy...
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Cut, copy, and paste are essential commands of modern human–computer interaction and user interface design. They offer an interprocess communication technique...
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invariably modified after the fact, and thus is vulnerable to all of the problems of copy and paste programming. For this reason snippets are primarily...
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consequence, the practice of copy-and-paste programming is prevalent; the code is written in a single place then simply copied to all other places where...
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engineering.: 11–13 Black box Cargo cult science Copy-and-paste programming GitHub Copilot Magic (programming) Magical thinking Vibe coding Raymond, Eric S...
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bad design when there are three copies, and may or may not if there are only two copies. Copy-and-paste programming Don't repeat yourself (DRY) You aren't...
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Don't repeat yourself (redirect from Once and only once)
principle (programming) Code duplication Code reuse Copy and paste programming Database normalization and denormalization Disk mirroring Loop unrolling Redundancy...
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common source code to be reused while avoiding the pitfalls of copy-and-paste-programming and hard coding of constants. As with many innovations, a problem...
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PMD (software) (redirect from Copy/Paste Detector)
Cyclomatic Complexity measurements. Duplicate code—Copied/pasted code can mean copied/pasted bugs, and decreases maintainability. PMD is released under...
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Inline expansion (category Programming language comparisons)
transformation. A programmer might inline a function manually through copy-and-paste programming, as a one-time operation on the source code. However, other methods...
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acrylic Paste (Unix), a Unix command line utility which is used to join files horizontally Paste, a presentation program designed by FiftyThree Cut, copy, and...
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Duplicate code (section Costs and benefits)
are: copy and paste programming, which in academic settings may be done as part of plagiarism scrounging, in which a section of code is copied "because...
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subroutine, and calling that subroutine from several locations, rather than copy and pasting the code at each of those locations (copy-and-paste programming). Re-using...
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List of software anti-patterns (category Object-oriented programming)
Spaghetti code Copy and paste programming Golden hammer Invented here Not invented here or (NIH) syndrome Premature optimization Programming by permutation...
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copying is perfect. Copy and paste is frequently used by a computer user when they select and copy an area of text or content. In visual art, copying...
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provides an application programming interface by which programs can specify cut, copy and paste operations. It is left to the program to define methods for...
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Vibe coding (redirect from Vibe programming)
not really coding - I just see things, say things, run things, and copy-paste things, and it mostly works." Karpathy acknowledged that vibe coding has limitations...
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provide for copy-and-paste and drag-and-drop user experience. Notable third-party utilities: FastCopy Rclone RichCopy rsync TeraCopy Ultracopier Shadowing...
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paste (sometimes referred to as paste bracketing ) is a mode of some terminal emulators which allows programs running in the terminal to treat pasted...
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Clipboard manager (section Copy history)
computer program that adds functionality to an operating system's clipboard. Many clipboards provide only one buffer for the "copy and paste" function, and it...
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Larry Tesler (category Programming language designers)
idea of copy and paste functionality and the idea of modeless software. While at Apple, Tesler worked on the Apple Lisa and the Apple Newton, and helped...
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selection, double-click, and cut-copy-paste were quickly adopted by Dan Ingalls for Smalltalk, beginning with Smalltalk-76. The ideas and techniques were refined...
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$151 in 2024). It was developed in a time when the ability to cut, copy, and paste text (now known as a clipboard) was a significant feature for home...
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Copypasta (category Internet manipulation and propaganda)
A copypasta is a block of text copied and pasted to the Internet and social media. Copypasta containing controversial ideas or lengthy rants are often...
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Hurricane Venus (redirect from Copy & Paste (album))
Jong-wan, Kim Dong-ryul, Lindy Robbins, Toby Gad, and more. Under the repackage title Copy & Paste, the album was re-released on September 27, 2010, nearly...
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Paste up is a method of creating or laying out publication pages that predates the use of the now-standard computerized page design desktop publishing...
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sources and destinations are persistent and available as long as they are on the Shelf (in the Windows cut, copy, and paste metaphor the objects and locations...
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Web scraping (section Human copy-and-paste)
web-scraping technology cannot replace a human's manual examination and copy-and-paste, and sometimes this may be the only workable solution when the websites...
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Scroll Lock (redirect from Copy Cursor (K3PLUS))
alternative DOS keyboard and console drivers FreeKEYB and K3PLUS, Scroll Lock also serves as part of a copy & paste facility between applications. Compared to the...
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visual programming language and environment, for writing application software. It is an experimental, research attempt to develop a new programming model...
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