Why Simple Code is Better Than Reusable Code

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Don’t Repeat Yourself (DRY). It’s basically a law of programming, especially object oriented programming. The whole idea is that you should aim for reusability of objects, functions, etc. where possible and if you find yourself copying code from place to place, you have gotten something wrong.

It’s a great heuristic, for your code, but it can also lead to some really ugly stuff. Places…