I think that most of the time is about that, the DRY principle wrong implemented. I work in this project, that every time that two functions share at couple of lines, they would refactor into a single one. This was a nightmare, and it only improved difficult to understand the function.
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I think that most of the time is about that, the DRY principle wrong implemented. I work in this project, that every time that two functions share at couple of lines, they would refactor into a single one. This was a nightmare, and it only improved difficult to understand the function.