Do Not Repeat Yourself (DRY) / Simplicity

Kind: tension

Record: tension:do-not-repeat-yourself-dry-simplicity

Canonical: Schema

"duplicate-code" (structural-core layer) is traded against "Simplicity" (human-factors layer) — a principle cannot be scope-separated from a quality, metric, or cost it competes with; resolve by measuring "Simplicity" and choosing an explicit operating point.

Listed in Tensions, after Do Not Repeat Yourself (DRY) / Locality of Behavior and before High Cohesion / Over-Specialization.

In tension with

• Do Not Repeat Yourself (DRY)
• Simplicity

Mechanism

• irreducible-tradeoff

Linked from

• Core Modular Design
• Resolution mechanisms