Only if you do it wrong? If it ends up like thousands upon thousands of if statements then you got it wrong (or so I think). Getting it right IMO means realiz

Only if you do it wrong? If it ends up like thousands upon thousands of if statements then you got it wrong (or so I think). Getting it right IMO means realizing that rules are not necessarily source code but often data to be iterated over, filtered etc. This is a form of metaprogramming that can be practiced even in Java ;-)