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A comment on In the Defense of Spaghetti Code (2013).

Re:In the Defense of Spaghetti Code (2013) by jstewartmobile on Monday July 22, 2019 @08:10AM (#20497201)
There is a fine line between DRY and human-Huffman-encoder.

Just knowing that the line exists makes a big difference!

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Re:In the Defense of Spaghetti Code (2013) by galangalalgol on Monday July 22, 2019 @08:45AM (#20497457)
I'm stealing that analogy, it's perfect. Huffman encoded codebases give me rage tantrums when debugging.
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