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NewsThe Pitfalls of Cut and Paste Coding Pin
Terrence Dorsey3-Oct-12 11:06
sitebuilderTerrence Dorsey3-Oct-12 11:06 
We’ve all been guilty of it in our development careers at one time or another. When starting out using a language or framework that you’ve never used before you often have no choice but to. What I’m talking about is the act of “copy paste coding”, and it’s as common in the programming world as chewing gum under seats. When you copy and paste other developer’s code into your application it’s important to fully understand what the code does before you continue; or risk joining the many fools that have gone before you.
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