Tangential: One of my favorite pieces about simplicity, laziness, dogmatism and getting things done is from Mark Jason Dominus[1]. His context isn't connected t

Tangential: One of my favorite pieces about simplicity, laziness, dogmatism and getting things done is from Mark Jason Dominus[1]. His context isn't connected to this at all (it's about when and whether to use shell commands inside Perl scripts), but the larger point is very relevant: taking "Do the simplest thing that could possibly work" seriously can have surprising outcomes. tl;dr Sometimes ugly is elegant, too. [1] http://perl.plover.com/yak/12views/samples/notes.html#sl-3 http://perl.plover.com/yak/12views/samples/notes.html#sl-3