Anyone can write complex, brittle code, and often even get it to work. The real superstars solve the same problems with simple code. I recall a fellow student

Anyone can write complex, brittle code, and often even get it to work. The real superstars solve the same problems with simple code. I recall a fellow student in CS in the 1980s who used to brag about how many lines of code he wrote to solve an assignment. I never understood that mentality. His programs were always 2-3 times longer than mine. But now that I've had many years in the industry, it almost seems that a lot of people believe more code is better.