> But I don't buy that copypaste programming is benign. Copypaste programming doesn't have to be benign in order to be better than the likely alternatives. Th

> But I don't buy that copypaste programming is benign. Copypaste programming doesn't have to be benign in order to be better than the likely alternatives. The people who blind copy/paste are likely not producing high quality code in the first place. In which case, blind copy/paste is often an improvement.