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The problem isn’t the acronym, it’s the dogma that grows around it. WET will be wrong in certain circumstances too. Our industry is full of dogma and false pr
by louthy 5y ago
The problem isn’t the acronym, it’s the dogma that grows around it. WET will be wrong in certain circumstances too.
Our industry is full of dogma and false prophets. It’s unbelievably frustrating.
- jaredsohn 5y agoNobody should always DRY or WET; my context is I wrote some code for a greenfield part of a project and was told to DRY multiple times. Was easy to reply 'I prefer WET here' and link to an article on WET rather than explaining the redundancy. Interestingly, I just looked at the wikipedia page for DRY (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don%27t_repeat_yourself https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don%27t_repeat_yourself) and see they also mention another acronym - AHA (avoid hasty abstractions); I might use that in the future.
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