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Re:Software engineering topics I changed my mind on by hydroxonium on Saturday January 23, 2021 @10:38PM (#25888931)
"Single source of truth" is more meaningful than the overly simplistic "DRY".

If two things are _supposed_ to behave similarly, then not having duplicate code makes perfect sense.

If two things just _happen_ to behave similarly (at first), it may be a hasty generalisation to immediately refactor them to use the same code.

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