For the hacker's dictionary
Nov. 9th, 2005 05:41 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
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
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| They obviously can’t be bothered to write useful documentation. |
