17 June 2010 - boilerplate

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Daily Whale Law of Elegant Programming

Boilerplate code (which you write even though it’s the same every time) and documentation (which you reread even though it’s the same every time) are interchangeable. To write less boilerplate, you have to read more documentation.

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