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Mar 07Soft Coding
by in Alex's Soapbox on 2007-04-10The submission behind today's schedule article was withdrawn; instead, I'd like to take this opportunity to present the practice of Soft Coding.
Most programmers consider “Hard Coding” to be a Bad Thing: it’s hack-like, inelegant, and all-around lazy code. And as such, many programmers try their damnedest to avoid it. Unfortunately, this quest of avoidance often leads towards a much worse path: complication, convolution, and all-around unmaintainable code. It’s a path I like to call Soft Coding.