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Care to suggest a short term that has the same denotational meaning without the connotations you dislike?
by req2 17y ago
Care to suggest a short term that has the same denotational meaning without the connotations you dislike?
- DougBTX 17y ago'cruft'
- silentbicycle 17y agoAs noted elsewhere in the thread: "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... http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/um/people/simonpj/papers...)