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Tomek Buszewski

It's better to write dirty, understandable code than highly abstract and incomprehensible one.

Also, sometimes it's better to repeat some code rather than refactoring a days work just for the sake of "cleanness".

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Andreas Møller

I would say it's almost always better to repeat code.

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Ross Henderson

I repeat this regularly at work. We have a developer who (in PL/SQL) wrote a parameter as "parameter := null" instead of "parameter default null", and the reason was that "I'm not a typist".