This is silly. Everyone knows that DRY is telling you that if you do the same sequence of mouse clicks three times in a row, you should spend the day writing a script to automate the task instead of quickly finishing what you were doing by doing the same sequence of clicks a fourth time. If you are supposed to apply it to the code you write, then there’d never be boilerplate-heavy languages like Java.
DRY has been applied to written code at least since the book Clean Code, which has been widely recommended to programmers for nearly two decades.
I’m not making a stance here about whether or not that is the right recommendation, but saying that DRY was never meant to be applied to “the code you write” is simply wrong.
(I remember DRY being pushed before that book, but it’s the only primary source I have at this moment.)
I thought I was clear enough there that I could get away without a /s at the end. Of course the real meaning isn’t it’s a really good idea to spend a day automating four mouse clicks you only need to do one more time.
This is silly. Everyone knows that DRY is telling you that if you do the same sequence of mouse clicks three times in a row, you should spend the day writing a script to automate the task instead of quickly finishing what you were doing by doing the same sequence of clicks a fourth time. If you are supposed to apply it to the code you write, then there’d never be boilerplate-heavy languages like Java.
You are wrong.
DRY has been applied to written code at least since the book Clean Code, which has been widely recommended to programmers for nearly two decades.
I’m not making a stance here about whether or not that is the right recommendation, but saying that DRY was never meant to be applied to “the code you write” is simply wrong.
(I remember DRY being pushed before that book, but it’s the only primary source I have at this moment.)
I thought I was clear enough there that I could get away without a
/sat the end. Of course the real meaning isn’t it’s a really good idea to spend a day automating four mouse clicks you only need to do one more time.Ha, I see.
Yeah, sarcasm over text forums is sometimes difficult to pick up on.
OOT, I’m pretty sure I saw you on OpenMW forum before
I’m one of OpenMW’s developers, so that’s understandable.
Ahh yes. Nice to see you on the Fediverse.