Three Developer Articles that Interested Me This Week — 10/31/2022

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Please do repeat yourself (DRY is dead)

This article is wrong. That is all.

5 Reasons Why Kids Should Start Coding Early

This reminds me of the debate about teaching kids cursive. I mean, why in the world would you teach cursive anymore? Only here, I wonder — why in the world would you not teach kids to code?

How to eliminate if-else chain, for long life software

One thing I always say is “Every time you write an if statement, consider whether you ought to be created another class”. In general, I think if statements are suspect.