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Eric Lippert wrote an article a while back about "Cargo Cult Programmers" (http://blogs.msdn.com/ericlippert/archive/2004/03/01/82168.aspx http://blogs.msdn.com
by michael_dorfman 17y ago
Eric Lippert wrote an article a while back about "Cargo Cult Programmers" (http://blogs.msdn.com/ericlippert/archive/2004/03/01/82168.aspx http://blogs.msdn.com/ericlippert/archive/2004/03/01/82168.a...)
It would appear to be a meme that can be applied to almost anything...
- bdr 17y agoSome writers, when faced with a problem, think "I know, I'll use a cliche". Now they have two problems.
- stcredzero 17y agoSome writers, when faced with a problem, think "I know, I'll use a cliche". Now they have two problems. Is that "Cargo Cult Writing?" Is this "Cargo Cult Meta-commenting?" Nope, it's Cargo Cult Recursion. (Which is the application of the "Cargo Cult" metaphor by imitating the surface details of other such applications. We keep using those words. I do not think they mean what we think they mean.)