Talk:Hard coding

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Softcoding was nominated for deletion. The discussion was closed on 24 August 2023 with a consensus to merge. Its contents were merged into Hard coding. The original page is now a redirect to this page. For the contribution history and old versions of the redirected article, please see its history; for its talk page, see here.

The style of this article is far too conversational. Please fix that.

"Strings" changed to "data"[edit]

I replaced references to 'strings' with 'data' since non-string data can also be hard-coded. --User:SteveBaker

Profile Path[edit]

Actually, the example of C:\Documents and Settings\ failing on Vista isn't true - Vista automatically redirects this to C:\Users\ as there is a junction point/reparse point/symbolic link that points from Documents and Settings to Users. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 217.33.15.251 (talk) 10:30, 26 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]

You are right, and i changed the article that way, removing the Vista reference. --95.89.180.211 (talk) 07:17, 26 May 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Microprocessors example[edit]

Origins[edit]

Currently the article says 'the term "hard-coded" was coined in 1990 by R. Galichon (then a Programmer/Analyst at Mobil)'. I beg to differ, I was using the term in 1989 and have also never heard of R. Galichon. -- JonRB (talk) 13:29, 18 April 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Given that whoever wrote that origin story originally has been failing to provide a source for almost four years, I removed the sentence. It can always be re-added if someone can actually prove that this term is as young as 1990 (which seems unlikely to me). --Mudd1 (talk) 21:37, 18 December 2013 (UTC)[reply]

I can't prove that I was using it in 1989, but I don't see how you can say it is "unlikely" it is as young as 1990 given my assertion. JonRB (talk) 22:59, 17 October 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Optimization[edit]

Hard coding can also be a powerful optimization technique, such as using sinus-tables instead of expressions when an FPU is not available. /Stellarvortex (talk) 15:51, 7 November 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Left/right-handedness[edit]

Example: In e.g., https://github.com/openstreetmap/iD/issues/7866 I plead the case about not assuming all users use their left hand for certain mouse operations and their right hand for others, and thus have this hardwired too deep into the code to change. Jidanni (talk) 21:21, 21 September 2020 (UTC)[reply]