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[–] 20 points 5 months ago (2 children)

Judgement call. When it's something prone to change that's hard to get right, duplicating it just creates more maintenance burden.

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  • [–] 1 point 5 months ago

    Plus, it's bloat. A snippet of extra code isn't going to cause much trouble, but then you end up doing it a lot, and there's snippets in the snippets, and all the sudden something that used to fit on a floppy is 3 gigs.

    I have no idea how much of a factor this is relative other various performance-sacrificing shortcuts, but Wirth's law is a thing.

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