Some more: Any problem has many possible solutions, but only one (well... few) are simplest. It doesn't take much intelligence to write complicated code, this

Some more: Any problem has many possible solutions, but only one (well... few) are simplest. It doesn't take much intelligence to write complicated code, this is just finding "a" solution. Finding simple solution requires understanding of range of all possible solutions or at least a lot of them, understanding what makes them simple, and selecting the one that is simplest. If you are smart and want to show it, why not show your smarts by finding simple solution to the problem?