Copied code is typically not used verbatim for long, as we’ve seen in studies of programming practice – it is customised and integrated into the new context almost immediately. By doing this, the ...

Copying loopnfimes simply says to a programmer you will be calling this functionality, it doesn't copy the expressiveness of the code. And Google used its own implementing code.

This copy-and-paste keyboard for developers started out as a joke. Now it's real - and sold out A nod to developers' habit of copying code has sold out in days.