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chairmansteveyesterday at 5:42 PM1 replyview on HN

> I disagree.

So... the wrong abstraction, no matter how bad, is better than code duplication?


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dofmyesterday at 5:57 PM

If you read my original comment I said pretty much this, yes.

> I would go as far as to say that any abstraction you can maintain (that is in active maintenance, I mean) is better than code duplication once you are past a de minimis threshold.

I appear to be in a solid minority thinking this. But I'm OK with it. I'm probably not going to write a blog post.