Subj : Re: Polymorphism sucks [Was: Paradigms which way to go?]
To   : comp.programming,comp.object
From : Lurker
Date : Sat Jul 09 2005 08:36 pm

"Chris Sonnack" <Chris@Sonnack.com> wrote in message
news:pa33c1d9e499utf78qcssrljgg8m2qmofi@4ax.com...
> topmind writes:
>
> > Copy-and-paste actually *reduces* coupling because it lets things be
> > independent, for example. Thus, if reducing coupling is always good,
> > then copy-and-paste is always good.

Sorry, but cut-and-paste is probably the worst thing
that has ever happened to the programming skills.

Consider: if you have to type the same thing more
than twice, you would probably think more than twice
before doing it yet again and find a way to refactor it.

That's more or less a given considering the human
nature.

However, if it takes just a few key-strokes to
copy that block of code, that's probably what
will happen and damn the torpedoes (err, I mean
consequences)

That's human nature too.

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