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The DRY obsession(joelabrahamsson.com)

submitted by webpoetwebpoet(415) 9 months, 16 days ago

A reflection/rant about the over exaggerated focus on the DRY principle many of us bear with us from school.

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posted by dpetersondpeterson(4397) 9 months, 14 days ago 0

Besides writing code that behaves consistently, the biggest reason to focus on keeping DRY is for maintenance. I think that maintenance programming is something that students should be introduced to. Theory is nice, but let's throw 15 years of crufty VB6 code at them and see how they fair ;-)

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