1 - 10 pages? In what font size? Are powers of 10 in the point size of a font a thing? Seriously, though, I have seen these 'just code the solution top to bott

1 - 10 pages? In what font size? Are powers of 10 in the point size of a font a thing? Seriously, though, I have seen these 'just code the solution top to bottom' go horribly awry. Like when it produces a multi-thousands of lines function where indentation is about 7 levels deep with lots of nested switch/case and so on. These things can become completely unreadable and unmaintainable. The danger of code duplication always was and still is that at some point something needs to be changed and it needs to be changed in 100 places. And then the various places where the duplication occurs start to diverge and things become truly unmaintainable.