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Re:On DRY and the cost of wrongful abstractions by michaelcampbell on Sunday September 18, 2016 @09:18PM (#12528181)
Yup. While DRY is often sold as "everyone gets to use it!" but in reality becomes "everyone HAS to use it".

I like to think of this as: DRY (Don't Repeat Yourself) needs to be weighed against DRY (Don't Refactor... Yet).

This can be mitigated somewhat by liberal and thoughtful use of SemVer or equivalent.

(There is also, of course somewhat tongue in cheek; WET - Write Everything Twice)

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