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Low Hanging Fruit of Programming Language Design
The number of bugs are proportional to the lines of code, but shared code can massively multiply the cost of making a change, because of the risks involved.
Sometimes duplication is worth it simply because it reduces the impact of changes.
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Sometimes duplication is worth it simply because it reduces the impact of changes.