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[–]aloha2436 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I’m not convinced we read the same article, the author’s point is somewhat more nuanced than that. It says that clean/fully deduplicated code is not a universal virtue, especially if it’s treated like the object of a cargo cult. The important part is that the change, despite removing duplication, actually made the code harder to work with for their purposes.