Editing Boilerplate text (section)

== Boilerplate code ==
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In computer programming, boilerplate is the sections of code that have to be included in many places with little or no alteration. Such boilerplate code is particularly salient when the programmer must include a lot of code for minimal functionality.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Lämmel |first1=Ralf |title=Proceedings of the 2003 ACM SIGPLAN International Workshop on Types in Languages Design and Implementation |last2=Jones |first2=Simon Peyton |date=2003 |publisher=[[Association for Computing Machinery|ACM]] |isbn=9781581136494 |series=TLDI '03 |location=New York |pages=26–37 |chapter=Scrap your boilerplate: a practical design pattern for generic programming |doi=10.1145/604174.604179 |chapter-url=https://www.researchgate.net/publication/221282345 |s2cid=9472305}}</ref>

A related phenomenon, bookkeeping code, is code that is not part of the business logic, but is interleaved with it to keep data structures updated or able to handle secondary [[Aspect (computer science)|aspects]] of the program.