Great article, but one caveat: The underlying concepts in computer science ARE simple, but the problem is that your average developer deals less with them and

Great article, but one caveat: The underlying concepts in computer science ARE simple, but the problem is that your average developer deals less with them and more with higher level concepts. In fact, you might argue that at this point computer science is ALL about the complexities we have introduced. We are not writing assembly anymore, and we kind of have to deal with the unfortunate reality that computer science is going to be needlessly complex for some time to come, thanks to poor (or lack of) standardization (yes, I would throw every web standard in this bucket). Needless to say though, I agree that we should find a way to simplify things (if that is possible).