By mitchp
via java.dzone.com
Published: Jun 28 2012 / 09:39
Copy and Paste Programming – taking a copy of existing code in your project and repurposing it – violates coding best practices like Don’t Repeat Yourself (DRY). It’s one of the most cited examples of technical debt, a lazy way of working, sloppy and short-sighted: an antipattern that adds to the long term cost of keeping a code base alive.
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Comments
eelmore replied ago:
YES. It really is. Copy-code always seems to be full of bugs or soon gets bungled into an ill-fitting solution.
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