Imo, Dont Repeat Yourself makes most sense when you forget about code and take it to mean that you shouldnt repeat your work. IE, if you wrote some code in one

Imo, Dont Repeat Yourself makes most sense when you forget about code and take it to mean that you shouldnt repeat your work. IE, if you wrote some code in one place that you needed elsewhere, copy pasting the code is fine under my interpretation because it allows you to spent the least amount of time working on a problem you've already solved.