personally, i think that when you're programming, not just pondering how to make your code simpler and shorter but also concentrating on patterns that repeat an

personally, i think that when you're programming, not just pondering how to make your code simpler and shorter but also concentrating on patterns that repeat and packing them into a catchall solution can do a lot towards making code more readable and maintainable. I suppose this is what is usually meant by DRY, but I unfortunately still see an aweful lot of code that doesnt follow this principle. And i think it has to do with the fact that many (myself included) programmers think about solving the problem at hand and we sometimes allow our thoughts about abstracting what we're doing into overarching reusuable procedures to slip into the background. for instance, say you notice you've got multiple for loops iterating over matrixes of pixel data and running transformation functions on member elements. The first level would be to abstract this into an each function taking the array and the function to call, the next step would be to pack the each into an even more general function, and now all those lines have been compacted into a single call pixel_data.update_array_matrix.