Copypasta is evil

I declare copypasta and design patterns, save for very rare exceptions, are sign of a sucky programmer or a sucky non-functional language at work. Programmer editors should have an option to produce a warning when you paste more than two lines or 80 non-whitespace characters, telling you that you are doing something wrong.

When working with a decent language, and by decent I mean anything that allows you to barely work with dynamic functions, so anything from PHP counts, I can hardly think of a situation where you'd need to copypasta your code, let alone use a professional enterprise best-practices design pattern.

its like a selection of common approaches to recurring issues with software development.they're not set in stone, so you're not emulating them, but they are useful. they're not just cookbook recipes either, but are a way to perceive common issues and at the same time, reduce complexity, reduce coupling, and reduce duplication of code, and reduce copypasta.