alt Hacker News> instead it would spread its assumptions to different parts of the system,
But so does duplication, in practice, and it diverges more as it does.
> instead it would spread its assumptions to different parts of the system,
But so does duplication, in practice, and it diverges more as it does.
Duplication is just code doing the same thing in several places, and as such it's much easier to make DRY (and much easier after you have N copies to see what should be shared and what should not), compared to re-architecting the whole system to remove a bad abstraction.