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I never heard the original Feynman quote; actually such a good description for things sometimes, what a powerful quote. I also didn't know about the ties of Ch
by sigbottle 2y ago
I never heard the original Feynman quote; actually such a good description for things sometimes, what a powerful quote.
I also didn't know about the ties of Christianity with cargo-cultism lol.
> Note that the metaphor in cargo-cult programming is the opposite of the metaphor in cargo-cult science: Feynman's cargo-cult science has no chance of working, while cargo-cult programming works but isn't understood.
Is it used like that? I guess sometimes - I've also heard it used in the former, that there's software engineers that will adopt a practice in the hopes that it works, but even when it inevitably fails, they keep worshipping the practices by tackling it with the same tools and approaches (mainly in the context of OOP). Not agreeing with it just saying my observation