The Copy-and-Paste Programming Manifesto

Blogged under Agile, Architecture, Software by Mark Dalgarno on Wednesday 6 May 2009 at 3:33 pm

Manifestos have been all the rage in software development since the agile manifesto was launched in 2001.

Given the success of that manifesto, I felt it was time to put together my own manifesto to stop what I believe is one of the most serious problems in modern software development – copy-and-paste programming.

I launched my manifesto at the ACCU Conference in April and promoted it at Developer Day Scotland to great acclaim and general acceptance, so now is the time for a public launch.

Make a stand against copy-and-paste programming by adding your name in a comment here and by publicising the manifesto to your colleagues.

In order to get maximum consensus across the industry I have intentionally kept the manifesto brief:

Copy-and-Paste Programming Manifesto

With your help, we can stamp out this problem once and for all.

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3 Comments »

  1. Comment by Phil — Wednesday, 6th May 2009 @ 3:47 pm

    brief:

    The Copy-And-Paste Programming Manifesto
    I will not copy-and-paste code

    With you help

  2. Comment by JMcL63 — Wednesday, 6th May 2009 @ 4:35 pm

    OK, OK, I think I get it now:
    - Copy and paste is fine.
    - But copy and paste CODE, and you insert closures in the open source.
    Is that it? ;)

  3. Comment by Giovanni Asproni — Wednesday, 27th May 2009 @ 2:14 pm

    The Copy-And-Paste Programming Manifesto
    I will not copy-and-paste code

    With you help

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