Talk:Softcoding

This article was nominated for deletion on 10 August 2023. The result of the discussion was merge.

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Cleanup

I'm not sure what's going on with this article. I attempted to wikify it, but I'm pretty new at this. I know for a fact that it needs to be cleaned up a bit, as it's hard to read and doesn't make any sense. I just don't know anything about softcoding to do it.

70.104.123.234 20:57, 6 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I've had a go, and it turned into somewhat of a rewrite. It makes good sense to me,. but I wrote it! Robbak (talk) 08:49, 27 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Premise is single source and bad info.

Most of this article was taken from a single opinion--the WTF article.

The article is semi-humor. They were pointing out how externalizing data can be a problem, but didn't consider even the most obvious solutions that are in use by most larger software systems like a settings database.

The fact is, when a program gets large enough and is distributed to a wide enough area, "Softcoding" must be (and is) heavily used.

On the other hand I suppose this article may be correct because the author of the referenced "humorous" WTF article seems to have coined the phrase "softcoding" to show his personal distaste for the practice. Perhaps a like such as "This term was invented by the author of this article and is not an actual technical term" or something at the top would do the job. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 50.43.16.111 (talk) 09:25, 16 April 2011 (UTC)[reply]