What is Lorem Ipsum?

Lorem Ipsum is simply dummy text of the printing and typesetting industry. Lorem Ipsum has been the industry’s standard dummy text ever since the 1500s, when an unknown printer took a galley of type and scrambled it to make a type specimen book. It has survived not only five centuries, but also the leap into electronic typesetting, remaining essentially unchanged. It was popularized in the 1960s with the release of Letraset sheets containing Lorem Ipsum passages, and more recently with desktop publishing software like Aldus PageMaker including versions of Lorem Ipsum.

Why do we use it?

It is a long established fact that a reader will be distracted by the readable content of a page when looking at its layout.

public abstract class Shape {
public abstract double calculateArea();
public abstract double calculatePerimeter();
// ... common methods and fields
}
public class Circle extends Shape {
private double radius;
// ... constructor and other methods
@Override
public double calculateArea() {
return Math.PI * radius * radius;
}
@Override
public double calculatePerimeter() {
return 2 * Math.PI * radius;
}
}
public class Square extends Shape {
private double side;
// ... constructor and other methods
@Override
public double calculateArea() {
return side * side;
}
@Override
public double calculatePerimeter() {
return 4 * side;
}
}

1. Modularization: Encourage modular code design, where functionality is divided into distinct modules or classes. This approach promotes reusability and reduces duplication by encapsulating related functionality in separate units.
2. Code Reviews: Regular code reviews with a focus on redundancy can help catch and rectify redundant code early in the development process. Peer code reviews provide an opportunity to identify and eliminate redundancy through collaboration and feedback.
3. Continuous Refactoring: Embrace an iterative approach to software development, continuously refactoring code to eliminate redundancy and improve overall code quality. Refactoring should be an ongoing process, allowing the codebase to evolve and adapt to changing requirements while minimizing redundancy.

The point of using Lorem Ipsum is that it has a more-or-less normal distribution of letters, as opposed to using ‘Content here, content here’, making it look like readable English. Many desktop publishing packages and web page editors now use Lorem Ipsum as their default model text, and a search for ‘lorem ipsum’ will uncover many web sites still in their infancy.

Various versions have evolved over the years, sometimes by accident, sometimes on purpose (injected humour and the like).