Hardcoding Considered Harmful - or is it?
Posted by: Jeffrey Palermo,
on 13 Jan 2009 |
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I had an interested conversation with a colleague recently, and the topic was hard-coding. A definition from wikipedia follows: Hard coding (also, hard-coding or hardcoding) refers to the software development practice of embedding input or configuration data directly into the source code of a program or other executable object, or fixed formatting of the data, instead of obtaining that data from external sources or generating data or formatting in the program itself with the given input....