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One of the greatest programming books of all time is Code Complete by Steve McConnell.  I often recommend this book to new programmers and when I was running the IT department of the Dot Com I was working for, I made it required reading.

In it, Steve makes a great case against using i, j, and k for incrementing variables as in, for(i =0, i < 20;i++) because it describes nothing about what the code is doing.

What I intend to do today is to demonstrate from a real-life example that he’s right.

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We all do it.  I’m sure of it.  It’s too easy. I need code that looks almost like something else I wrote so I just copy and paste it over to the new code.  Done.

But at what cost?

Is it really that much like the other code?  Did you forget to change something?  What happens when you need every instance of this change to be changed?  Are you going to remember all the places where you made this change?

The one thing we all do to save time is the one thing that ends up costing us the most time in our development projects.

Let me illustrate.

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