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swiftone
I had the exact same question when I heard the term.
Cargo cult code (<a href=http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr/jargon/html/entry/cargo-cult-programming.html>Jargon File entry</a>) is WRONG (doesn't work/security risk/poor practice) code that
is passed along anyways. A bad
<a href=http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr/jargon/html/entry/meme.html>meme</a>.
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A super search for <a href=http://www.perlmonks.org/index.pl?node_id=3989&findthesewords=Cargo+cult>"Cargo Cult"</a> will give you some examples of the term being used, usually
in reply to some code in that category. [Merlyn] is particularly vigorous in down-voting this code.
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Other "classic" examples are A lot of Matt Wright's perl CGI code, and the "Pragma: no-cache" myth.
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