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RE: RE: RE: Help me understand...by swiftone (Curate) |
| on Oct 18, 2000 at 23:57 UTC ( [id://37411]=note: print w/replies, xml ) | Need Help?? |
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I had the exact same question when I heard the term.
Cargo cult code (Jargon File entry) is WRONG (doesn't work/security risk/poor practice) code that
is passed along anyways. A bad
meme.
A super search for "Cargo Cult" will give you some examples of the term being used, usually in reply to some code in that category. Merlyn is particularly vigorous in down-voting this code. Other "classic" examples are A lot of Matt Wright's perl CGI code, and the "Pragma: no-cache" myth.
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