For ages now, I've been telling people that the best best code, produced by the most experienced people, tends to look like novice code that happens to work ---

For ages now, I've been telling people that the best best code, produced by the most experienced people, tends to look like novice code that happens to work --- no unnecessary abstractions, limited anticipated extensibility points, encapsulation only where it makes sense. I love this. "Perfection is reached, not when there is nothing left to add, but when there is nothing left to take away." -- Antoine de Saint-Exupery Have to disagree a little on getters and setters though. They're tremendously useful as places to set breakpoints when debugging. Well, setters are, anyway; I guess it's rarer that I'll use a getter for that. Anyway, perhaps we can agree that the need for these is a design flaw in Java; C# has a better way.