Maybe once you eliminate one level of "boring" code, that just means parts of the next-higher level of code become rote and boring. It reminds me a little of R

Maybe once you eliminate one level of "boring" code, that just means parts of the next-higher level of code become rote and boring. It reminds me a little of Richard Gabriel's reply to Guy Steele, when Steele said something like "Lisp doesn't need design patterns; it has macros." Gabriel said "That just moves the patterns up a level of abstraction." (I probably remember that story all wrong. But I like it anyway!)