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It is worse in software, people will copy and paste the broken windows all over the code base in new code.
by rileymat2 5y ago
It is worse in software, people will copy and paste the broken windows all over the code base in new code.
- Jtsummers 5y agoI'm also dealing with that at work. Current situation: 11 files all derived from an initial baseline, there was only supposed to be a one line change for each (apparently the programmer had never heard the term "parameter"), everything else was supposed to be the same. However, what was two copies (and maybe easy to keep in sync) became 11 total, copied at different times and from different versions. They're all out of sync with each other and the end users now have to know 10 (one is correct) workarounds to deal with the 10 bad states the system can get into. And this isn't the only place this happened in this codebase, it's rampant. At least this fix is quick, annoying though.