I blame "Clean Code"; it's recommended reading, but at its core it dumbs down refactoring to mechanically factoring out common code without actually crafting ab

I blame "Clean Code"; it's recommended reading, but at its core it dumbs down refactoring to mechanically factoring out common code without actually crafting abstractions. I'm still in the process of unlearning this. The prime directive should be "craft sensible abstractions", not "avoid duplication at any cost"; even more so when we're talking about actually modular software, where duplication is much easier to tolerate than blurring responsibility lines. (I'm generally not a big fan of Uncle Bob.)