> I would go as far as to say that any abstraction you can maintain (that is in active maintenance, I mean) is better than code duplication once you are passed a de minimis threshold.
Pretty much everyone arguing for duplication has argued what you are saying, which is wait to see a few instances of it before committing to an abstraction. No one is saying duplicate everything 100 times. So I don't think this discussion was ever iconoclastic.
Pretty much everyone arguing for duplication has argued what you are saying, which is wait to see a few instances of it before committing to an abstraction. No one is saying duplicate everything 100 times. So I don't think this discussion was ever iconoclastic.