Ideally solutions should be as simple as possible as well. The ultimate core algorithm they're wrapped around might be particularly clever / insightful. It mi

Ideally solutions should be as simple as possible as well. The ultimate core algorithm they're wrapped around might be particularly clever / insightful. It might even be mildly awful to wrap your head around -- but necessarily so. But then all the stuff you wrap around that to produce libraries to build into production code / shippable product should be pretty brain dead stupid as possible. That way people who sit down with your code find things all the places they expect and other than possibly the little nightmare in the middle of it, it is all straightforward and readable.