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luckystarr 43 days ago | parent | context | favorite | on: Prefer duplication over the wrong abstraction (201...

How I see this:

Refactoring code to reduce the number of lines is _compression_, akin to RLE coding.

Refactoring the code to lift conceptually coherent parts is _abstraction_.

Less compression, more abstraction. Then you're fine.

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