"I would have written a shorter letter, but I did not have the time." - Blaise Pascal Writing short, well working code often require a lot of thinking, redesig

"I would have written a shorter letter, but I did not have the time." - Blaise Pascal Writing short, well working code often require a lot of thinking, redesign and reworking. That is mostly not the case with longer code. I personally find such short code far more beautiful than generic and expandable object oriented frameworks. I usually find that making things generic is futile, because later requirements most often becomes something entirely different from what you thought. Then the generality just get in the way. Unfortunately a lot of people seems to disagree with that.