People who actually implement DRY: "Don't repeat yourself!"

People who "implement" DRY but are morons: "Don't repeat yourself, never say the same thing twice, and try not to be redundant."

It says don't, not never.
Sometimes a bit of repeated code is actually more maintainable.

@Root Occasionally. For example, if I needed to develop an entire system to avoid repeating myself twice or three times, then fuck that! Repeat yourself!

But in general, DRY.

Two very similar but subtly different modules are much more work and mental effort to generalize than to maintain separately.

Don't repeat yourself! But like with everything, there are exceptions.

imo software concepts are a bit overrated.
some stuff can be useful in edge cases too.
Knew someone firing people just for using switch case in any context (Java)

I've got almost the same block of code (there's a minor difference) running on two different servers inside two different projects. Tell me now, how to NOT repeat myself.

DRY: where you can
*IDC: where you cant

*I don't care

@kleopi @Root @C0D4 This half baked joke was about people who poorly implement DRY, not about people who repeat themselves once.

I obviously agree with all of you. It would be ridiculous to never actually repeat a single line of code.

@AlgoRythm you were missing the </sarcasm> node, we devs get defensive without it 😏

@C0D4

A) It wasn't sarcastic, I think it came across a bit too literal though.

2) I thought joke/meme tag appends sarcasm implicitly

@AlgoRythm
It would appear to be.

😂 also tags lie. So many jokes become rants, sometimes the opposite is correct too.

I sometimes use the word "if" twice.
Really hard to get around this

These sorts of "rules" are useful for double checking yourself rather than being ultimatums.

It pays to be aware of them so that whenever you've implemented such a "code smell", you can go back and work out if you *really* need to do that, or you've just goofed.