some amount of duplication is almost always preferred to the wrong abstraction This. This concisely expresses something I've learnt in the last few years but h

some amount of duplication is almost always preferred to the wrong abstraction This. This concisely expresses something I've learnt in the last few years but have struggled to write down. Generalising is great until you generalise in the wrong direction, then it creates extra complexity in all the other directions.