Comments on: Rant: Copy and Paste Programming http://blog.james-carr.org/2007/04/27/rant-copy-and-paste-programming/ Rants and Musings of an Agile Developer Sat, 22 Nov 2008 09:00:36 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.1 By: Idetrorce http://blog.james-carr.org/2007/04/27/rant-copy-and-paste-programming/#comment-42024 Idetrorce Sat, 15 Dec 2007 11:44:27 +0000 http://blog.james-carr.org/?p=66#comment-42024 very interesting, but I don't agree with you Idetrorce very interesting, but I don’t agree with you
Idetrorce

]]> By: Ryan Cooper http://blog.james-carr.org/2007/04/27/rant-copy-and-paste-programming/#comment-13580 Ryan Cooper Mon, 30 Apr 2007 22:39:43 +0000 http://blog.james-carr.org/?p=66#comment-13580 Great post. I couldn't agree more. I don't know how many times copy-paste (all in the name of meeting the deadline) has come back to bite us on the ass on my current project. I blogged something along a similar vein just yesterday: http://on-agile.blogspot.com/2007/04/why-you-wont-fix-it-later.html Cheers, Ryan Great post. I couldn’t agree more. I don’t know how many times copy-paste (all in the name of meeting the deadline) has come back to bite us on the ass on my current project.

I blogged something along a similar vein just yesterday: http://on-agile.blogspot.com/2007/04/why-you-wont-fix-it-later.html

Cheers,
Ryan

]]> By: Jeroen van Wilgenburg http://blog.james-carr.org/2007/04/27/rant-copy-and-paste-programming/#comment-13045 Jeroen van Wilgenburg Sun, 29 Apr 2007 08:33:41 +0000 http://blog.james-carr.org/?p=66#comment-13045 This sounds so familiar. A while ago I wrote a blog about this subject after reading 15.000 lines of code. Those 15.000 lines should have been about 250 lines, but someone loved copying around: http://technology.amis.nl/blog/?p=1866 This sounds so familiar. A while ago I wrote a blog about this subject after reading 15.000 lines of code. Those 15.000 lines should have been about 250 lines, but someone loved copying around:
http://technology.amis.nl/blog/?p=1866

]]> By: neuro http://blog.james-carr.org/2007/04/27/rant-copy-and-paste-programming/#comment-12880 neuro Sat, 28 Apr 2007 23:21:51 +0000 http://blog.james-carr.org/?p=66#comment-12880 If you are java developer you can use some good tools: JetBrains IDEA contains smart duplicate detector (which will not be tricked by changed identifiers or expressions) and TeamCity 2 can provide you regular browsable reports for new dupes. If you are java developer you can use some good tools: JetBrains IDEA contains smart duplicate detector (which will not be tricked by changed identifiers or expressions) and TeamCity 2 can provide you regular browsable reports for new dupes.

]]> By: vlod http://blog.james-carr.org/2007/04/27/rant-copy-and-paste-programming/#comment-12795 vlod Sat, 28 Apr 2007 18:02:04 +0000 http://blog.james-carr.org/?p=66#comment-12795 I've been in this industry for over 12 years and I see this a *lot*. I share your sentiments. There are a substantial amount of people who don't view their work as a craft and just want to move on to their next piece asap. I think one of the factors is that these people never seem to clean there crap up. It's inevitably left to people who do care, to fix 'just one little thing' and it turns into one big refactoring project. Then the comments of how long it took to do such a small enhancement. grrrhhh.. I’ve been in this industry for over 12 years and I see this a *lot*.

I share your sentiments. There are a substantial amount of people who don’t view their work as a craft and just want to move on to their next piece asap.

I think one of the factors is that these people never seem to clean there crap up.
It’s inevitably left to people who do care, to fix ‘just one little thing’ and it turns into one big refactoring project. Then the comments of how long it took to do such a small enhancement. grrrhhh..

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