Most pithy aphorisms are over-simplifications. "Want cleaner code? Use the rule of six" probably is too. But they can still give you a useful way of thinking ab

Most pithy aphorisms are over-simplifications. "Want cleaner code? Use the rule of six" probably is too. But they can still give you a useful way of thinking about a problem that you might have forgotten to consider, and can give you a Platonic ideal as a useful guiding star even if you know you'll never reach that sort of purity in the real world.