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Re:DRY Is a Trade-Off by jonno123 on Friday December 18, 2020 @09:30PM (#25474443)
I want to frame your first sentence. Abstract code discussions are absurd. I’ve learnt to mostly ignore programming blogs if they don’t include some concrete code.
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Re:DRY Is a Trade-Off by oftenwrong on Saturday December 19, 2020 @12:51AM (#25475419)
Most code maintenance issues don't really appear until a relatively large amount of code and code evolution is involved. It's hard to include that in a blog post while keeping it digestible for the average reader.

In a small example, excessive duplication is not a problem, and excessive DRYness is not a problem.

Therefore, it makes some sense to me to leave out code, and just hope the reader has personal experience to draw relevant examples from.

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