Discussion on "Software design principles: DRY"

Chris Bongers · 2020-11-16T04:52:57.563Z

Today we'll be exploring a design principle called DRY it stands for Don't Repeat Yourself. Of course, a pretty obvious one, meaning you shouldn't type code more than once. The principle states: "Every piece of logic must have a single unambiguous re...

A great developer is all about getting ahead of everything, minimizing mistakes to achieve efficiency. This tactic promotes easier coding maintenance, which saves a lot of time. Will share this with my fellow developers. Wonderful tip!

Olivia parker, IT BPO OBP IT Solutions

Really the first example makes it difficult to understand but the article was very good. Congrats!

Hey Diego,

Thanks for this feedback, think you're right and the first one actually made things more confusing in stead of giving a super high-level overview

DRY principle serves to prevent you from copy/pasting code all around, to reduce code base, and for easier maintenance. I think that the first example is not a really good example of the DRY principle. The other one is totally fine.

I tried to explain the first one is not really about the function, but about the DRY principle.

You must see that reverse as a very extensive function.

Thanks for your comment though, appreciate it ✌️

Thank you, glad you like the article

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