For the hacker's dictionary

[mithriltabby]

cargo cult coding, n. The act of writing code to resemble provided samples when there is no information that allows actual problem solving; a last resort when documentation is hopelessly inadequate and source code to the underlying operating system is unavailable.

Documentation on Windows drivers is so bad that I had to get out the fastfat sources and do cargo cult coding until the blue screen bug went away.

— Max Kaehn, 2005

Microsoft Windows Hatred Status

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They obviously can’t be bothered to write useful documentation.

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[mithriltabby]

Looks like cargo cult programming is already in the dictionary.