Agree with everything. > Doesn't force you to mentally juggle many balls at the same time. Coincidentally, this is how I define complexity colloquially for my

Agree with everything. > Doesn't force you to mentally juggle many balls at the same time. Coincidentally, this is how I define complexity colloquially for my own purposes. It is extremely general, stupidly practical, and literally rooted in brain chemistry. Applying this to programming is still a delicate art, since it depends on what the reader of the code wants to do. Most people focus on clean modules (e.g. a 100 LOC unit testable data structure), but that's only helpful when the next person wants to modify or replace a single module, which is generally the easy part. Most times when I'm groking a new code base is spent understanding data flow across a complex hierarchy of modules – usually, the dumber and flatter, the easier this task becomes.