I’m calling for an end to holy war against code duplication. We convince young developers and engineers that it’s the worst thing ever, when time teaches all of us that it is, the vast majority of the time, duplication preferable to dependency.
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I would not describe my position as preferring copying and sourcing. I was simply stating some clear costs to dependencies. But "it's complicated" and I am not selling silver bullets either.

Dec 19, 2018 · 2:34 PM UTC

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Replying to @eddelbuettel @setgree @sam_ferree
It's a question of tradeoff: some scientific code should be reproducible, in the sens of archived (gael-varoquaux.info/programm…), or more noble goal is that of reusability (gael-varoquaux.info/programm…), but it's not sustainable. Apologies for the shameless plugs.
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