alt Hacker News+1 The worst code I had to maintain was code that tried to follow DRY (without the trying to understand what the original intention of that principle was). The only way out of that mess was widespread code duplication.
+1 The worst code I had to maintain was code that tried to follow DRY (without the trying to understand what the original intention of that principle was). The only way out of that mess was widespread code duplication.
Yep. Keyword "tried," as in they did it for a while then hit a point where it's impossible to faithfully follow the abstractions because they're wrong.