Copy-Paste Legacy And The English Language

Technical debt Legacy code Spaghetti code Syntax Copy paste programming Code consistency English language Inconsistent patterns

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Copy-Paste Legacy And The English Language

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The English language is basically what happens when you copy-paste code without understanding it. Just like how "-ough" words refuse to follow any consistent pronunciation pattern (through, cough, though, rough, bough), your codebase becomes a linguistic nightmare after the 17th StackOverflow snippet. The compiler somehow makes it work, but nobody—including you—can explain why. It's technical debt with a dictionary.

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