Shotgun surgery

Noun

Definitions

1.NounThe antipattern of adding similar or identical source code in multiple parts of a software project, rather than implementing the desired functionality in a single place to make it reusable.

Synonyms

shotgun debugging shovelware parallelism spaghetti code programming in the large partial application compound pattern fork sampling superoptimization inner-platform effect compilation behaviour

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