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it sounds like you're implying their code (and brain) is full of mush That might be how some people use it... heck that might even have been the original inten
by andreyf 17y ago
it sounds like you're implying their code (and brain) is full of mush
That might be how some people use it... heck that might even have been the original intention, but I'd still rather just use it to describe the extra code a language makes you write.
If you think about it, there is no name for that... you could call it "cruft", but that's usually used to describe unnecessary verbosity in a framework or library, not the language itself.
- silentbicycle 17y ago"Boilerplate" has that meaning, but without the connotation that the person using it is automatically a moron. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boilerplate_%28text%29 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boilerplate_%28text%29 See also: Simon Peyton-Jones's "Scrap Your Boilerplate" papers (http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/um/people/simonpj/papers/hmap/ http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/um/people/simonpj/papers...)