Fellow 30+'er here... You had me at > - Simplicity is an important design goal for all systems. Complexity breeds bugs. Boilerplate is simple. DRY can be take

Fellow 30+'er here... You had me at > - Simplicity is an important design goal for all systems. Complexity breeds bugs. Boilerplate is simple. DRY can be taken too far. Every abstraction layer leaks at least a little. "clever" code is usually not what is needed for reliable software. Nuff said.