DRY code (usually with lot of IF blocks to handle special cases, or various oop lasagna) eventually turns into unmaintainable nightmare where every trivial new feature can take hours to implement and is very difficult, full of cussing, hair-pulling kind of programming where every 5 minutes you think "we need to rewrite everything from scratch, the system wasn't designed for this". Every change breaks million different unrelated things because of the complexity of extremely dry functions.
In WET code (write everything twice) everything looks primitive, as if it was written by complete newbie, and every change needs to be added at multiple places, but each change is trivial and time to finish is predictable. I would go as far as calling the code boring. The most difficult thing is to resist the temptation to remove the duplicity.
In WET code (write everything twice) everything looks primitive, as if it was written by complete newbie, and every change needs to be added at multiple places, but each change is trivial and time to finish is predictable. I would go as far as calling the code boring. The most difficult thing is to resist the temptation to remove the duplicity.