[Charlotte.PM] Cargo cult programming & Tonight's Meeting

[William McKee]

Hi folks,

With the rise of the Internet and more sophisticated software
development tools, it's very easy to give in to copying code (if it's
not licensed) or using automatically generated code to get a project
done quickly. However, without knowing exactly what the code is doing,
you will likely end up with more work debugging the code (and often when
there is no time left in the schedule to do debugging).

This type of development is known as cargo cult programming[1]. Recently
I was burned by two errors in some automatically generated code by an
otherwise very helpful Perl package. Stop by the meeting tonite[2] to
learn more about this tool and why my code was mysteriously failing.


See you offline,
William

[1] http://fishbowl.pastiche.org/2004/10/13/cargo_cult_programming
[2] http://charlotte.pm.org/

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