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by rsynnott 247 days ago
The great Verity Stob (unfortunately, in an article which no longer seems to be online, after the Dr Dobbs Journal website finally went away) referred to this behaviour (by _human_ programmers) as "nailing the corpse in an upright position".
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This is her quoting the original article, but as far as I can see the original article is lost to the mists of time. Might be on archive.org, I suppose.