Saturday 15 June 2002 — This is more than 22 years old. Be careful.
I was contemplating a coding task for work. It was going to involve copying a chunk of code from another project, and modifying it for the problem at hand. This is a common strategy in writing software (please, no lectures about commonalizing the code, writing libraries, etc. In this case is wasn’t an option: trust me). I figured there ought to be a catchy phrase for copying and modifying, something with either rhyme (like “walk and talk”) or alliteration (like “cash and carry” or “nature vs. nurture”).
My wife and I brainstormed for a bit, and the best was “clone and hone”. Here’s what we came up with:
- clone and hone
- pinch and paint
- grab and grind
- skim and trim
- append and amend
- sneak and tweak
- swipe and stripe
- take and shake
- lift and sift
- mooch and mash
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