[hinkley]

Some people feel productive when they can type a bunch of code quickly. And the only way to do that is to get muscle memory for writing the same code over and over and over.

[wizofaus]

I think I can categorically state that virtually every DRY violation I've come across involved little more typing than Ctrl+C Ctrl+V.

[hinkley]

I’ve dealt with a few bad coding patterns over the years that were not copy and paste.

Though there have been a couple memorable occasions where I had to completely remove a bad pattern from the code to get people to stop using it.