> I dive around foreign code bases a lot and dry-ness is actually a significant complicating factor in understanding code, because you're jumping around a lot (

> I dive around foreign code bases a lot and dry-ness is actually a significant complicating factor in understanding code, because you're jumping around a lot (as in physically to different files or just a few screens away in the same file). I can't agree more. Also, "code reuse" makes debugging significantly harder when trying to reverse engineer some code base. The breakpoints or printf:s get triggered by other code paths etc. And you need to traverse stack frames to get a clue what is going on. Extra bonus points for fancy reflection so that you have no clue what is going on.