The term 'clean' is ambiguous. I aim for 'simple' code. That means as few lines of code as necessary, as few abstractions as necessary, as few files as necessar

The term 'clean' is ambiguous. I aim for 'simple' code. That means as few lines of code as necessary, as few abstractions as necessary, as few files as necessary. I have a rule of thumb that every abstraction I 'invent' should be relatively easy to explain to a non-technical person. So far in my 12 year career, I don't think I've ever had to invent an abstraction that was so complex that I couldn't explain it to a moderately intelligent business person and I've worked on some very complex systems.