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by markokocic 5352 days ago
Actually cut-and-paste is ok, since the code is moved from one (wrong) place to another (better) place.

Problem is copy-and-paste, which litters codebase with duplication and lead to messy and hard to maintain code.
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Stratoscope 5351 days ago
The author meant copy and paste:

> Think about that ctrl-C, ctrl-V sequence next time you are about to use it.

Many people use "cut and paste" as a generic term that refers to either copy and paste or cut and paste. You have to figure out which they really mean from the context.

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markokocic 5351 days ago
I know what he mean, but that's not what he said. And it is one of the primary reasons why bugs exists, you mean something, but program something else.
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frobozz 5351 days ago
Agreed, I'd hate to write an application of appreciable size without cut-paste.

I currently hate an application that I'm likely to end up working on that was authored with a generous helping of copy-paste.

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