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A few weeks ago some commenter here said they ascribe to WET - Write Everything Twice. Basically worry about abstraction when you get to number three. And what
by suzzer99 5y ago
A few weeks ago some commenter here said they ascribe to WET - Write Everything Twice. Basically worry about abstraction when you get to number three.
And what an acronym given the context!
- hprotagonist 5y agoI've also heard "We Enjoy Typing"
- agency 5y agoThat’s great, and jives with my experience. You probably don’t know the problem well enough to come up with the right abstraction until at least example #3.
- paraknight 5y agoI've never heard this as an acronym, but I use it in practice! For me, it's an extension of "three or more, use a for" that made sense for all repetition and not just loops.
- Cthulhu_ 5y agoOr to paraphrase some sayings / one-liners, "a little copying is better than the wrong abstraction".
- joseluis 5y agoI love this. And I like it's also consistant with the findings of the natural semantic Metalanguage. NSM would be the minimum element set of concepts shared by all human cultures, which can be used to derive the rest of concepts, and it's heavily based on anthropological field studies. And it includes the numbers one, two and many, (also few, some & all). So that indicates some special meaningful distinction for us in that jump from two repetitions to start abstracting away.