Many programmers believe that the more complex the better. In my experience good code looks silly simple, such that you might think the problem was easy. And t

Many programmers believe that the more complex the better. In my experience good code looks silly simple, such that you might think the problem was easy. And thus underrate the author ... I have never read someone else code at work and complained that a function is too big with too many if clauses. However, deep call trees are really hard to comprehend. Especially if some function is called multiple times in the same call stack (unless the algorithm is recursive in a good way).