hard-coding

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Hard-Coding

Part of Speech: noun, verb

Definitions:

(noun) The practice of embedding specific values or data directly into the source code of a computer program, instead of allowing them to be determined by external input or configuration files.
(verb) To write or insert hard-coded values or data directly into the source code of a computer program.

Examples:

Noun:

Hard-coding can make software less flexible and difficult to maintain.
Many programmers avoid hard-coding by using configuration files to store constant values.

Verb:

Instead of hard-coding the IP address, it is better to fetch it from a system environment variable.
The developer decided to hard-code the maximum file size directly into the program.

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