Comment by macNchz

>it is _much_ easier to refactor copy pasta code

I totally agree assuming that there will be time to get to the second pass of the "write everything twice" approach...some of my least favorite refactoring work has been on older code that was liberally copy-pasted by well-intentioned developers expecting a chance to come back through later but who never get the chance. All too often the winds of corporate decision making will change and send attention elsewhere at the wrong moment, and all those copy pasted bits will slowly but surely drift apart as unfamiliar new developers come through making small tweaks.