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sagichmal on Sept 15, 2014 | parent | context | favorite | on: Channels Are Not Enough

    > I never thought people will actually come up and defend   
    > code duplication.

DRY is a principle, not an axiom.

Overapplication of DRY as axiomatic has led to much pain and suffering.

the_af on Sept 15, 2014 [–]

Agreed! But what this means is that when you decide not to apply DRY, you need to have a reasonable justification. Code duplication in general is a bad thing.

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