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From Why Simple Code is Better Than Reusable Code by Dan Goslen
It’s a great heuristic, for your code, but it can also lead to some really ugly stuff. Places where a poorly named variable gets reused in situations it wasn’t meant to. Times when you find yourself three or four layers of inheritance deep and not understanding what anything means… or changing a variable to make one test or code easier, but then breaking code everywhere else because it was being reused.