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by ficklepickle 2307 days ago
Or it starts as duplicate but diverges over time. I've been bitten by the premature deduplication.
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Or worse, the natural progression should be that they diverge, but because they now share some kind of "reused" code in a library or class, an abomination is added to one or both users, just to keep the original "shared" feature.

Great fun.