In Defense of Copy & Paste

In Defense of Copy & Paste

Adherence to DRY (“Don’t Repeat Yourself”) does not necessarily preclude repetition of code. In t...概要を表示 Adherence to DRY (“Don’t Repeat Yourself”) does not necessarily preclude repetition of code. In the endless struggle to refactor, the entropy we are trying to reduce is not in the raw text of our source code; it is in our business logic, which (in applications with little or poor testing) is often uncodified. Sometimes, refactoring can hamstring our code, and when done naïvely it can be a source o