On Sat, Dec 19, 2009 at 6:08 PM, Henning Brauer <lists-open...@bsws.de> wrote: > * Floor Terra <flo...@gmail.com> [2009-12-19 16:47]: >> But in my experience copy/paste of code in any language is dangerous. > > [ ] you have ever seriously used C > > heck, even perl. >
In my experience (mostly python and c), code that has been pasted has a higher bug density. This is because most of the copy/paste goes like this: 1) Write some loop 2) Need similar loop 3) copy/paste old loop 4) Modify pasted loop (but forget one tiny change) 5) New loop has bug It's worse with Python because of the indentation (tabs vs. spaces), but as a general rule I would say never copy/paste code. -- Floor Terra <flo...@gmail.com> www: http://brobding.mine.nu/
