A coworker had never heard of this, and I couldn’t provide a real definition. For me, it’s always been an instance of ‘I-know-it-when-I-see-it’.
Bonus question, who originated the term?
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“boilerplate code” is any seemingly repetitive code that shows up again and again in order to get some result that seems like it ought to be much simpler.
It’s a subjective definition.
The term comes from “boilerplate” in the newspaper industry: wiki
