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Not a mechanical engineer, but similar assumptions. Chances are the term wouldn't have become a fixture in software jargon without that folk etymology. I'm genu
by usrusr 4y ago
Not a mechanical engineer, but similar assumptions. Chances are the term wouldn't have become a fixture in software jargon without that folk etymology. I'm genuinely surprised that it's quite literally about copy/paste, and not about formalities at all!
- jalk 4y agoI have only ever known boiler plate code as that kind of code that is needed to stitch things together, initialize libraries and so on. So not exactly copy/paste, but rather "formulaic" code that has not yet been deemed worthy of an abstraction