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by s73ver 3279 days ago
I think a big part of that is this mistaken idea that, if you duplicate a single line of code, you've done a terrible, terrible thing.

Sandi Metz did a pretty good talk about this, basically saying we need to think more before we abstract things away because "code duplication". https://www.sandimetz.com/blog/2016/1/20/the-wrong-abstracti...