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Duplication is cheaper than the wrong abstraction, so code should not be made reusable before there are real examples of what the reuse has to do.

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  1. Sandi Metz duplication is far cheaper than the wrong abstraction sandimetz.com

    Author of Practical Object-Oriented Design in Ruby and 99 Bottles of OOP

    Their wordsduplication is far cheaper than the wrong abstraction

    Where this was said

    ↗The Wrong Abstractionsandimetz.com

    All 4 korrents from this piecethis one is 1st

  2. Casey Muratori Like a good compressor, I don't reuse anything until I have at least two instances of it occurring. caseymuratori.com

    Game and engine programmer

    Their wordsLike a good compressor, I don't reuse anything until I have at least two instances of it occurring.

    Where this was said

    ↗Semantic Compressioncaseymuratori.com

    All 4 korrents from this piecethis one is 2nd

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