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nounboilerplate code (uncountable)
- uncountablecomputingSynonym of boilerplate.
Because you write that same boilerplate code over and over, the C# 3.0 compiler will now do it for you.
2011, Stephen R. Davis, Chuck Sphar, C# 2008 For Dummies, John Wiley & Sons, →ISBN, page 2311 more example
Detecting and initializing a drive requires jumping through a few programming hoops, but the same boilerplate code can do the job for any application.
2010 April, Jan Axelson, “Program Small Devices With Big Abilities”, in Nuts & Volts, →ISSN, page 49Synonyms: boilerplate
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nounSynonym of boilerplate.
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