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by alanbernstein 1156 days ago
Huh?

> But there's nothing wrong with repetition in itself. I say again, there's nothing wrong with repetition in itself: a task we do many times is probably an important one. And if we find ourselves creating new abstractions to no purpose other than avoiding repetition, then we've gone wrong somewhere. We're making the program more complex, not more simple.