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by themodelplumber 1158 days ago
An amusing aspect of DRY is that the moment you think "great, with that last patch I'm no longer repeating myself," you now have an opportunity to look around and really just take in how much repetition happens everywhere, at multiple levels.

You are still repeating yourself, and will likely continue to repeat yourself, forever.

(Phew, look at that word "everywhere", it should just be "vrywh")

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Great example of how refactoring is a neat way to introduce bugs and break features