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 | This page was proposed for deletion by an editor in the past with the comment: "Hand coding" is a term, but this article is original research/synthesis. Flagged for no references since 2009. It was contested by Kvng (talk · contribs) on 2016-09-04 with the comment: Complaints can be addressed through improvement or other WP:ATD |
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editRe: Matthiaspaul's edit comment. I am unable to provide references at this time. If you think the article should be deleted, go ahead and bring it to AfD. The Prod was not uncontroversial. There are many Google hits for the term. Deletion would not be an improvement. ~Kvng (talk) 16:48, 17 January 2022 (UTC)
- Don't worry, I share your opinion that it is better to improve weak contents over time than to delete the article. Personally, I would call it "manually written code" what the article refers to as "hand code", and I typically associate low-level coding with it, so explanations referring to HTML sound somewhat strange to me, but that could be just me. Programmers don't normally work with WYSIWYG editors, and if a WYSIWYG editor is "hand coding" a file, s/he is probably applying a patch to it.
- Anyway, when I happen to run into suitable references offering some kind of formal definition I will add them to the article, but otherwise the topic is not in my immediate focus right now.
- Regarding the related article "derivative code", shouldn't this better be called "derived code"? At least to me, a "derivative" is something that can be used as kind of a substitute or replacement, whereas if something old is worked/transformed into something new, the new thing is a "derivation" rather than a "derivative". A "derivative" can be the result of some "derivation", but could also have other origins. And a "derivation" is not necessarily a "derivative" for the original.
- Further, I found a transformation utility named "Chameleon", but not the term "Chameleon code" (although there might be users using this term referring to this tool in this context).
- What is your opinion on this?
- --Matthiaspaul (talk) 20:34, 17 January 2022 (UTC)
- I'm personally not familiar with Derivative code as a computer science term. The hand coding I'm familiar is working at a deeper level in the development stack than usual to improve performance or for hacking. Writing HTML would be hand coding if you normally use a Content management system. ~Kvng (talk) 22:50, 18 January 2022 (UTC)