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Re:In Defense of Copy and Paste by zacharyvoase on Friday February 08, 2013 @04:00PM (#5190114)
The article talks about when to refactor: when you are making the code more closely resemble the product specification.

I'm disappointed that the key point of my entire article, which is the difference between accidental sameness and essential sameness, was apparently misconstrued as an attack on all refactoring.

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Re:In Defense of Copy and Paste by stcredzero on Friday February 08, 2013 @04:26PM (#5190241)
My apologies, then. However, this is the risk that the attention-grabbing pinch of sensationalism afforded by "copy & paste" brings with it.
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