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I'll never forget the day my mother called to tell me that their cat had died in an accident, suffering. I was (technically) grown up then, and it was many years ago, but it still hurts. Writing this hurts :(

In an ideal world, what you want is more like copy-on-write. Share the code until one of the clients of that code needs a change that the others do not, then copy it.

Good point. The problem with that is, of course, that you may not be aware of others existing.

There is no silver bullet...

+1

No offence, but you sound like you haven't worked in or close to such a field. CS theory very often doesn't require coding at all, and coding would be barely helpful.

edit: this is not a value statement.