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Re:DRY is an over-rated programming principle? by davewritescode on Thursday July 07, 2022 @07:38AM (#32012691)
Your problem isn’t DRY, your problem is that you don’t have people advocating for very basic best practices.

You can’t adopt DRY or SPOT or anything else if you aren’t free to refactor and you aren’t free to refactor without some tests.

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