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by lamontcg 1197 days ago
> BeetleB's Law of DRY: Every article that complains about DRY will be a strawman argument.

Counterpoint: Every article that defends DRY will be a No True Scotsman argument.

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No True Scotsman is relevant only when one cannot objectively define a True Scotsman (i.e. not in a recursive manner).

Here we have an objective, original, unambiguous definition of DRY. So no, this is not a No True Scotsman fallacy.