Comment by rramadass

> understand the actual specific problem you need to solve, not the abstract general problem. Understand the statistical distribution of actual problem instances, they'll have parameters in some range. Understand the hardware you're building writing software for, understand its finite capacity & capability.

Very much in line with what James Coplien and colleagues described with "Commonality and Variability Analysis" and "Family-oriented Abstraction, Specification, and Translation" (FAST) for Software Engineering in the 90's. Coplien's PhD thesis titled Multi-Paradigm Design and book titled Multi-Paradigm Design for C++ is based on this approach.

Commonality and Variability in Software Engineering (pdf) - https://www.dre.vanderbilt.edu/~schmidt/PDF/Commonality_Vari...

Multi-Paradigm Design (pdf of PhD thesis) - https://tobeagile.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/CoplienThes...