I doubt we are in heavy disagreement. My point was not meant for whole programs to be done in this way. I am a heavy advocate for judicious use of the likes o

I doubt we are in heavy disagreement. My point was not meant for whole programs to be done in this way. I am a heavy advocate for judicious use of the likes of XPath (or JMESPath or JSONPath/whatever) at the border to deconstruct things. Similarly, having a query language instead of manually learning how to do all of the necessary merge and sort operations for many things makes a ton of sense. Does this mean I think DSLs are a panacea? No. Not at all. And I meant my point to be that we are in agreement that well written code is better in pretty much all cases. Be it well factored, or well whatever. Would indeed be a fun thing for more conversations. I am always amused and amazed at how many strawman programs people have had the misfortune of working with.