Pradeep, a statistical database programmer, is trying to write a large statistical program needed by his company. Programmers in this company are encouraged to write about their work and to publish their algorithms in professional journals. After months of tedious programming, Pradeep has found himself stuck on several parts of the program. His manager, not recognizing the complexity of the problem, wants the job completed within the next few days. Not knowing how to solve the problems, Pradeep remembers that a co$-$worker had given him source listings from his current work and from an early version of a commercial software package developed at another company.

On studying these programs, he sees two areas of code which could be directly incorporated into his own program. He uses segments of code from both his co$-$worker and the commercial software, but does not tell anyone or mention it in the documentation. He completes the project and turns it in a day ahead of time.