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I have written a small utility that I call DuplicateFinder, since it finds duplicate lines of code in files.  I spent a year in the late 1990s working in small company. We asked prospective hires to submit code samples, and I was one of the people looking at the code. There are problems with this method, in that it's too easy to ...

Don't repeat yourself. I'll say it again – don't repeat yourself. When writing code, consolidate duplication. (But when explaining, say it several different ways). Code duplication hinders code readability and maintainence. On Friday I downloaded an interesting tool called Simian It is so named because it's a SIMIlarity ...