Runtime Arguments

40: Cargo Cult Programming

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When are you programming, and when are you just pretending ... really, really, well?

Cargo cult science is a term Richard Feynman invented to describe one way of doing science wrong. The computer science world has adapted the label to "cargo cult programming". When you copy/pasta from Reddit or Stack Overflow or from a chat bot or from someone else's project, but you don't understand why the…