Today I Found: Soft-Coding & #1 Deadly Sin of Programmers

A question on StackOverflow, What is Soft-Coding (anti-pattern), introduced me to the term soft-coding (a pun to hard coding).

To explains simply the term, I quoted the code snippet of the accepted answer:

SpecialFileClass file = new SpecialFileClass( 200 ); // hard coded

SpecialFileClass file = new SpecialFileClass(DBConfig
  .Start()
   .GetConnection()
    .LookupValue("MaxBufferSizeOfSpecialFile")
      .GetValue());

Too much of anything is not good. The above is not an exception. Too much of flexibility led to over-engineering.

This is somehow similar to the #1 deadly sin in the series Seven Deadly Sins of Programming by Eric Gunnerson.