When I was younger, I really thought this was the be all end all, and probably committed more programmatic sins due to trying to achieve DRYness than anything e

When I was younger, I really thought this was the be all end all, and probably committed more programmatic sins due to trying to achieve DRYness than anything else. Often times it seems like we aim for DRY at the expense of simple, or idiomatic code. It also has a nasty habit of making code difficult to change since it leads to a lot of premature coupling, where someone sees a repetition and naively assumes that that needs to be eliminated, when it might literally be a naturally independent value.