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	Cargo cult - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		A cargo cult is any of a group of religious movements that occurred in Melanesia, in the Southwestern Pacific.
		Cargo cults thus focused on purifying their communities of what they perceived as 'white' influences by conducting rituals similar to the white behavior they had observed, presuming that this activity would make cargo come.
		In the world of military aviation, the Soviet Tupolev Tu-4 bomber is the subject of a cargo cult urban legend.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Cargo_cult (716 words)

	Cargo cult programming - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Cargo cult programming is an incompetent style of computer programming characterized by the ritual inclusion of code or program structures that serve no real purpose.
		Cargo cult programmers will usually explain the redundant code as a way of working around a computer bug encountered in the past.
		The practices of these cults centered on building elaborate mockups of airplanes and military landing strips in the hope of summoning the god-like airplanes that brought marvelous cargo during the war.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Cargo_cult_programming (232 words)

	Cult (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Cargo cult programming Cargo cult programming is a style of (incompetent) programming dominated by ritual inclusion of c...
		Cult of Domesticity The cult of domesticity, the prevailing belief during the Jacksonian Era, is the belief that a woman...
		Cult of Herodias The Cult of Herodias, in Reformation.
	www.brainyencyclopedia.com /topics/cult.html (620 words)

	Cargo cult programming: Definition and Links by Encyclopedian.com - All about Cargo cult programming
		A cargo cult programmer will usually explain the extra code as a way of working around some bug encountered in the past, but usually neither the bug nor the reason the code apparently avoided the bug was ever fully understood (compare shotgun debugging, voodoo programming).
		The term 'cargo cult' is a reference to aboriginal religions that grew up in the South Pacific after World War II.
		The practices of these cults center on building elaborate mockups of airplanes and military style landing strips in the hope of bringing the return of the god-like airplanes that brought such marvelous cargo during the war.
	www.encyclopedian.com /ca/Cargo-cult-programming.html (200 words)

	Encyclopedia: Cargo cult programming
		Computer programming (often simply programming) is the craft of implementing one or more interrelated abstract algorithms using a particular programming language to produce a concrete computer program.
		Voodoo programming (a term derived from voodoo economics) is using a programming device, system or language which you do not fully understand, the implication being that the end result should not actually work, or even if it does accidentally work you will not know why.
		Cargo Cult Science is a term invented by Richard Feynman to describe a particular type of pseudoscience in which all the superficial aspects of scientific inquiry are adhered to, although the underlying causal link between the conditions and the outcome is not understood.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Cargo-cult-programming (542 words)

	Cargo cult programming -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Cargo cult programming is an incompetent style of (Creating a sequence of instructions to enable the computer to do something) computer programming characterized by the ritual inclusion of code or program structures that serve no real purpose.
		Cargo cult programmers will usually explain the redundant code as a way of working around a (Click link for more info and facts about computer bug) computer bug encountered in the past.
		Use in computer programming probably derives from (United States physicist who contributed to the theory of the interaction of photons and electrons (1918-1988)) Richard Feynman's characterization of certain practices as (Click link for more info and facts about Cargo cult science) Cargo cult science.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/c/ca/cargo_cult_programming.htm (276 words)

	Fabulous Adventures In Coding : Syntax, Semantics, Micronesian cults and Novice Programmers
		Countrary to popular belief, the effectiveness of a programming language is not inverse of the number of characters a program consists of.
		That is because programming is only partly a matter of education, while it is also very importantly a matter of aptitude.
		On the other end are the cargo cult programmers who don't understand the code except that they know that right now, it does what they want, sorta.
	blogs.msdn.com /EricLippert/archive/2004/03/01/82168.aspx (6950 words)

	Skeptical view on the Object
		Code superstitions are a milder form of cargo cult software development, in which you find people writing code constructs that have no conceivable value with respect to the functions that the code is meant to fulfill.
		In this paper I use the concept of the cargo cult to frame the differing expectations surrounding “learning Java” that are held by students and their lecturer.
		The amount of programming work is the same in both cases, but the bulkier single object with additional methods counts for a higher level of reuse to most people, even though this object is carrying around a lot of unused "baggage" in any one instantiation.
	www.softpanorama.org /SE/anti_oo.shtml (6228 words)

	C
		A chain of USENET followups, each adding some trivial variation or riposte to the text of the previous one, all of which is reproduced in the new message; an include war in which the object is to create a sort of communal graffito.
		What a guru does when you ask him or her to run a particular program and type at it because it never works for anyone else; esp. used when nobody can ever see what the guru is doing different from what J. Random Luser does.
		A shortcoming of a program or algorithm that manifests itself only when a large problem is being run on a powerful machine (see cray).
	www.th-soft.com /zzJargon/C.htm (12136 words)

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		C is often described, with a mixture of fondness and disdain varying according to the speaker, as "a language that combines all the elegance and power of assembly language with all the readability and maintainability of assembly language".
		A cargo cult programmer will usually explain the extra code as a way of working around some bug encountered in the past, but usually neither the bug nor the reason the code apparently avoided the bug was ever fully understood (compare [2465]shotgun debugging, [2466]voodoo programming).
		A game between `assembler' programs in a machine or machine simulator, where the objective is to kill your opponent's program by overwriting it.
	www.datacrunch.net /jargon/topc.asp (16301 words)

	ExtUtils::MakeMaker - Create a module Makefile
		A filter program, in the traditional Unix sense (input from stdin, output to stdout) that is passed on each.pm file during the build (in the
		The extra \\ are necessary, unfortunately, because this variable is interpolated within the context of a Perl program built on the command line, and double quotes are what is used with the -e switch to build that command line.
		This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.
	cpan.uwinnipeg.ca /htdocs/ExtUtils-MakeMaker/ExtUtils/MakeMaker.html (5637 words)

	The Fishbowl: Cargo Cult Programming
		The Fishbowl » Archives » October 2004 » Cargo Cult Programming
		This is related to cargo cult software engineering, but not the same since I’m talking about code, not process.
		whereas cargocult programming is generally meant to mean imitating the behaviour of experienced programmers, although that behaviour has no real purpose or effect (other than making you look stupid).
	fishbowl.pastiche.org /2004/10/13/cargo_cult_programming (809 words)

	CAR
		Nearby terms: caret « careware « cargo cult programming « Caribou CodeWorks » Carl Friedrich Gauss » Carnegie Mellon University » carpal tunnel syndrome
		He nearly went into architecture rather than mathematics; what decided him on mathematics was his proof, at age 18, of the startling theorem that a regular N-sided polygon can be constructed with ruler and compasses if and only if N is a power of 2 times a product of distinct Fermat primes.
		(Or "wardialer") A program which uses a modem to dial a series of phone numbers (say, from 770-0000 to 770-9999), and keeps a log of what phone numbers answer with a modem carrier.
	www.linuxguruz.com /foldoc/foldoc.php?CAR (1523 words)

	Softpanorama Java Bulletin, 2004
		Programs are still taking a long time to start, even on a beefy machine, but to be fair, I've seen some long startup times on some C++ programs as well.
		In UNIX, a program is usually a tiny little thing which passes its output to other tiny little things, creating a network of programs controlled by a lightweight master program.
		Because the program is doing all of the work and all of the flow control, it doesn't matter if the thing starts or stops quickly, doesn't matter if it uses a lot of memory, because you're not going to be using that memory for a whole lot else.
	www.softpanorama.org /Lang/Javarama/Bulletin/java2004.shtml (15909 words)

	Cargo Cult Programming Encyclopedia Article, Definition, History, Biography (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
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	AR.net >> Discussion Forum >> Homeopathy is Cargo-Cult Science
		A similar cult, the dance of the spirits, arose from contact between American Indians and the
		has linked the social mechanisms that produce cargo cults to those of Messianism.
		But, from time to time, the term "Cargo cult" is invoked as an
	www.animalrights.net /66349 (574 words)

	C
		The traditional program comment for code executed under a condition that should never be true, for example a file size computed as negative.
		/n./ What a guru does when you ask him or her to run a particular program and type at it because it never works for anyone else; esp. used when nobody can ever see what the guru is doing different from what J. Random Luser does.
		This usage is common in people who hack supercomputers and heavy-duty number-crunching, rare to unknown elsewhere (if you say "codes" to hackers outside scientific computing, their first association is likely to be "and cyphers").
	www.isri.unlv.edu /~slumos/jargon/C.html (13284 words)

	cargo cult programming - Definition of cargo cult programming - cargo cult programming in Encyclopedia - ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		cargo cult programming - Definition of cargo cult programming - cargo cult programming in Encyclopedia - DictionaryWords.net
		--- [from jargon] --- :cargo cult programming n.
		A style of (incompetent) programming : dominated by ritual inclusion of code or program structures that serve no real purpose.
	www.dictionarywords.net /find/word/cargo%20cult%20programming/jargon (179 words)

	Cargo Cult Software Engineering (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		While imposters' "cargo cult software engineering" might look good, it won't get the job done.
		In the South Seas there is a cargo cult of people.
		So I call these things cargo cult science, because they follow all the apparent precepts and forms of scientific investigation, but they're missing something essential, because the planes don't land.
	www.awprofessional.com /articles/article.asp?p=99980&seqNum=3 (730 words)

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		Roy points to an article and whitepaper on pair programming, sounds like an interesting study in the XP practice...
		Reading through the "Generics in the Java Programming Language" [from TheServerSide] document that Sun released, I was interested to see generic polymorphism, something that.NET generics (I don't believe) support...
		In their day, the various devices always seemed pretty cool, but I never really had such a desire to program for these until yesterday.
	www.simplegeek.com /default.aspx?date=2004-03-27T00:00:00 (2289 words)

	Dots and cargo-cult programming (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Apparently, the idea that people have to be able to paste OLE example code into their programs directly has taken root among a fair number of smart people in the Perl community and elsewhere.
		Changing to suit the whims of the greater programming community is wrong, but standing firm on small issues is inflexible.
		The point of the original poster wasn't that the dot was cargo cult programming, but that it encouraged people to cut 'n' paste VB code into Perl programs, because there was no translation of the -> to a.
	perlmonks.thepen.com /96752.html (3135 words)

	ComputerZen.com - Scott Hanselman - Cargo-cult programming (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Some great reminders to folks about cargo-cult programming by Eric Lippert. This concept was taught to me in college, I think in a CST115 class. Boy is it the truth. Sometimes programmers try to make excuses for not understanding the how - "I don't need to understand SOAP, I'm not a plumber.
		They understood the form but not the content. There are lots of cargo cult programmers -- programmers who understand what the code does, but not how it does it.
		All this talk about cargo-cults and Mort/Elvis/Einstein reminds me of the Programming by Coincidence stories.
	www.hanselman.com /blog/PermaLink,guid,315b5639-7926-4c26-aa8e-72c6e9c7c546.aspx (408 words)

	Define cargo cult programming : powered by In Dictionary (InDicitonary.com) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
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	Cargo Cult Programming (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		A cargo cult programmer will usually explain the extra code as a way of working around some bug encountered in the past, but usually neither the bug nor the reason the code apparently avoided the bug was ever fully understood.
		I think one of the more valid points raised against PerlLanguage is that it can encourage this kind of programming.
		It certainly doesn't have to - in fact the excellent documentation system and the wide range of available modules almost completely remove any real need to resort to this DarkPattern - but the enormous number of features makes it tempting to use code without first checking to see exactly how it works.
	c2.com /cgi/wiki?CargoCultProgramming (259 words)

	Beware of 'Cargo Cult' Coding
		The image that came to mind as I wrote last week's column was the "cargo cult." In the years after World War II, South Pacific islanders were seen to imitate the behaviors of the armies that had come and gone during that conflict.
		In checking details of where and when the cargo cults were observed, I discovered that others have applied this same label to other flawed IT practices.
		That compendium defines "cargo cult programming" as "a style of (incompetent) programming dominated by ritual inclusion of code or program structures that serve no real purpose."
	www.eweek.com /article2/0,1759,1640340,00.asp (1239 words)

	Brain.Save() - Tuesday, 02 March 2004 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Every program has (at least) two purposes: the one for which it was written and another for which it wasn't.
		To understand a program you must become both the machine and the program.
		His audition was so memorable (and not in a good way) that he appears to have spawned a pretty aggressive cult following on the ‘net.
	hyperthink.net /blog/default,date,2004-03-02.aspx (3759 words)

	Defining new infix operators in Python \| Lambda the Ultimate
		I've been trying to avoid getting into more political wars, but this is exactly the problem that I see with those who argue against formalism: ultimately they want the ability to do what I call "programming by stunt." It's really just a sub-strain of cargo-cult programming.
		They want the bennies of macros or operator overloading without having to understand how such features interact with other language features or, worse, with such features interacting with other language features in an incoherent way.
		writing trickily clever programs -- is like "cargo-cult programming" -- i.e.
	lambda-the-ultimate.org /node/view/538 (438 words)

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