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I've seen this also. The amount of hoops and jumps people go through in order to abstract something can be ridiculous, ending in code only the author can unders

• usrusr 9y ago
  ...that only the author can understand, and not after being done writing. But still, good abstractions are much better than duplicated code, yet bad abstractions can easily be worse. "Minimize both duplication and bad abstractions" should be something everybody can get behind, even if only because it leaves all the details open.
  • dragonwriter 9y ago
    > "Minimize both duplication and bad abstractions" should be something everybody can get behind, even if only because it leaves all the details open. Leaving all the details open means the slogan is content-free. Why would anyone get behind it?
    • usrusr 9y ago
      Usually it happens when people put their favorite ideas into the blanks and do not realize that others could fill them in a different way.