> When done properly, yes. When done to the point where a five line function is created with ten inputs (yes, this is real), no. But DRY tells us that the five

> When done properly, yes. When done to the point where a five line function is created with ten inputs (yes, this is real), no. But DRY tells us that the five lines of duplication is unconditionally worse. I work with people I would describe as... junior at best (lots of boot campers) and I see this all the time. Functions that just return an anonymous function for no reason, half JSON blobs returned from functions that are called with one string instead of just repeating the blob in the code, etc.