I've been thinking about it lately. Esp. since I've taken another look at the refactoring chapters of Clean Code, but instead of being enlightened I felt disgus

I've been thinking about it lately. Esp. since I've taken another look at the refactoring chapters of Clean Code, but instead of being enlightened I felt disgusted. Like, for-loops are ok, if-statements are ok, those are the basic constructs of code, you can see the shapes visually and it's easy to follow the code path. This is what you find in low level C/C++ code, lots of switches, loops and conditionals. Those programmers just get used to the verbosity and look at shapes instead of reading line by line. Maybe it's easier for subtle mistakes to pass unnoticed, but refactoring out everything into layers of abstraction brings jumping around and context switching between these different pieces and trying to make a mental picture of how it all fits together.