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Re:Small functions considered harmful by jacobush on Saturday August 12, 2017 @05:34AM (#14997213)
Thank you for putting that into words, and rather few too. I have only felt that anti-pattern before, not had words for it. Does it have a name? If not, we should give it a name!
Re:Small functions considered harmful by whack on Thursday August 17, 2017 @08:39AM (#15036167)
I believe this pattern is referred to as accidental-duplication. Some existing discussions on this:

https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com/questions/3000...

http://www.informit.com/articles/article.aspx?p=1313447