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Misses the most important reason.

Repetition creates symmetrical cases. As they say in German, 'einmal ist keinmal' -- once is never. Overly DRY code is incredibly non-educational.

Why?

Because you learn by comparing and contrasting -- if you can't compare, you can't contrast, and therefore, you cannot learn.



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