Sniff Out That Smelly Code

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"IDE's should not support copy; only cut and paste are necessary." A rule to live by. As a cs major in college I never use copied code... unless it is 5 minutes before the due date and messy code wont lose me any points, when this is the case I clean it up for the second half of...

Reviewed by psychicsword Jan 22 2009, 05:48am ( 58 reviews ) • hackification.com

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Reviewed by regenerate on Apr 06 2009, 10:36pm

-- I love the notion of smells in code. what self-respecting hacker hasn't taken a look and said P.U. even my own code smells after a few months/years of rottage. nice article
Rated by uscdsmith on Mar 05 2009, 7:37am

Some good comments, but I don't agree all of them
Rated by abhishekworld on Feb 11 2009, 9:29am

really the good not only good best article for a programmers
Rated by Radikll on Jan 31 2009, 4:14pm

I've never seen this before \/ "Hello, Stumbler! These articles are all original work, and take time to produce. The adverts don't even cover hosting costs - I write in the hope that I'll help or interest others. Please give me a Stumble "thumbs up" if you like this page!"
Rated by foxtyke on Jan 29 2009, 6:14pm

It has some sound advice but in some cases, if it is a tiny snippet of code versus say a whole routine, why would you want to call it from a library?
Rated by davewill on Jan 28 2009, 1:53pm

Don't pander to the stumblers.
Rated by mosleyj on Jan 27 2009, 7:00pm

copy/paste functions fail, thats why libraries and oop were created.. lousy programmers these days.
Rated by hgfernan on Jan 27 2009, 1:22pm

Programming code has smell too.
Rated by Gravis on Jan 26 2009, 11:57pm

no copy and pasting? bullshit!

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