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Six common programming mistakes

An article in Oreillynet.com talks about common mistakes programmers (by profession, not by training) make in enterprise Java programming. I think all of these apply to other programming languages also.

First mistake about using XML to satisfy technology lust is really good - I’ve seen code where a list of US states is put in an XML file, then a function parses that file and makes a select list in HTML. Just how often do these states list change? It would’ve been far more easier and faster to hard code the select list!