New programming term
Copycoditis
Main Entry: copy·co·di·tis
Pronunciation: "kä-pE-co-'dI-t&s
Function: noun
Date: December 19, 2002
: inflammation of the programmer caused by a previous programmer copy-pasting code from another source without actually bothering to read or check what said code does. May also include inflammation due to comments from copied code no longer applying to new code yet left in for confusion purposes.
Usage:
"Why is this method deprecated? Oh, it's just copycoditis.. ".
Possible cure:
A large clue-by-four applied repeatedly to the offending programer's head.
Comments
If you really want to make friends add a comment above the copy-pasted code to let people who wrote the code so they get the blame for it.
Somebody I work with likes to do that to me and it drives me crazy...
Posted by: Gav | December 20, 2002 09:51 AM