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cargo cult programming

style of computer programming characterized by the ritual inclusion of code or program structures that serve no real purpose
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cargo cult programming

Summary

cargo cult programming is a programming anti-pattern[1]. It draws 215 Wikipedia views per month (programming_anti_pattern category, ranking #3 of 10).[2]

Key Facts

  • cargo cult programming's instance of is recorded as programming anti-pattern[3].
  • cargo cult is named after cargo cult programming[4].
  • cargo cult programming's subclass of is recorded as computer programming[5].
  • cargo cult programming's subclass of is recorded as voodoo programming[6].
  • cargo cult programming's subclass of is recorded as copy-and-paste programming[7].
  • cargo cult programming's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/0lhkt[8].
  • cargo cult programming's Microsoft Academic ID is recorded as 3120833[9].

Why It Matters

cargo cult programming draws 215 Wikipedia views per month (programming_anti_pattern category, ranking #3 of 10).[2] It has Wikipedia articles in 9 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[10]

Related Entities

computer programming

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] ↑ . Freebase Data Dumps. wikidata.org.
  7. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [10] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.

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