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by meestaahjoshee 2337 days ago
"duplication is cheaper than the wrong abstraction"

i think i read that in POODR by sandi metz

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Her book with Katrina Owen “99 Bottles of OOP” lays out an even better case for this I think. Particularly useful is the introduced language to help measure the state of a codebase (“shamelessly green” vs “incomprehensibly concise” etc).

Also quite like Fowler’s observation in Refactoring that (to paraphrase) abstractions are earned, not enforced.