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> I've been discouraged from putting code in reusable modules because it would mean one central location for everything to break. The rationale was that if eve
by gnaritas 17y ago
> I've been discouraged from putting code in reusable modules because it would mean one central location for everything to break. The rationale was that if every routine was copied and pasted where it was needed then introducing an error in one place would not affect other places.
Ha, I've run into this one as well. Blew my mind, they actually thought of this as smarter because it avoids any single point of failure in the code, like a battleship where there's a spare everything. Some people are just too stupid to be coding.