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Re:Channels Are Not Enough by sagichmal on Monday September 15, 2014 @08:49AM (#8318456) 

    > I never thought people will actually come up and defend   
    > code duplication.
DRY is a principle, not an axiom.

Overapplication of DRY as axiomatic has led to much pain and suffering.

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Re:Channels Are Not Enough by the_af on Monday September 15, 2014 @11:51AM (#8319557)
Agreed! But what this means is that when you decide not to apply DRY, you need to have a reasonable justification. Code duplication in general is a bad thing.
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