
The DRY Principle Revisited: Walking the Tightrope of Code Reuse
We’ve all been there - staring at two nearly identical code blocks like confused twins at a family reunion. “Aren’t you Billy?” “No, I’m Bob!” “But you both have the same nose!” This cosmic code duplication is exactly what the DRY (Don’t Repeat Yourself) principle tries to prevent. Let’s explore how to wield this principle without turning our codebase into an over-engineered Rube Goldberg machine. The DRY Principle Demystified DRY isn’t just copy-paste prevention - it’s about knowledge management....