> Assumption of incompetence to support your argument.
Okay, but it kind of is about incompetence. And by “it” I mean everything. Look, we all remember that first time we all realized that adults are just winging it most of the time. Almost nobody knows what they are doing. Half the people who “know” actually know the least.
> DRY does NOT lead to over-complicating things.
Don’t Repeat Yourself is a terrible acronym because what it stands for is exactly the opposite of what people do. Not doing something is avoidance, opting out, like “don’t push your sister” vs “be nice to your sister”.
What most people do is they realize they have already repeated themselves, or someone else, and they rip it out. They deduplicate their code. Avoidance definitely can “lead” somewhere, but deduplication is active, and that can often be headed the wrong way, either directly or obliquely.
The Rule of Three is much clearer on this. You get one. There’s nothing to do when you see you’ve duplicated code - except to check if you’re the first or not.
Okay, but it kind of is about incompetence. And by “it” I mean everything. Look, we all remember that first time we all realized that adults are just winging it most of the time. Almost nobody knows what they are doing. Half the people who “know” actually know the least.
> DRY does NOT lead to over-complicating things.
Don’t Repeat Yourself is a terrible acronym because what it stands for is exactly the opposite of what people do. Not doing something is avoidance, opting out, like “don’t push your sister” vs “be nice to your sister”.
What most people do is they realize they have already repeated themselves, or someone else, and they rip it out. They deduplicate their code. Avoidance definitely can “lead” somewhere, but deduplication is active, and that can often be headed the wrong way, either directly or obliquely.
The Rule of Three is much clearer on this. You get one. There’s nothing to do when you see you’ve duplicated code - except to check if you’re the first or not.