On the other hand, articles like this or principles like WET don't suddenly make it ok to just go ahead and duplicate code all over the place. It's not like cod

On the other hand, articles like this or principles like WET don't suddenly make it ok to just go ahead and duplicate code all over the place. It's not like code cannot be knowledge. Depending on the type of code SPOT and (what gets misunderstood as) DRY are totally about the same thing and mean the proper solution is to take those bits of similar code and make them into a function. Anyway, you likely know that already but I just felt information like this needs to be on this page as well to avoid possible beginners reading it might think all duplication is fine :] Because I've seen what happens when code containing the knowlegde gets duplicated and the result was never good and most of the time horrible on all fronts.