Programming without moving the the needle on _something_ is, ultimately, ugly. Granted, not all needles are worth money. But for the subset of needles that do,

Programming without moving the the needle on _something_ is, ultimately, ugly. Granted, not all needles are worth money. But for the subset of needles that do, you can bang out all the beautiful code you want, and you will get respect for it, in a functional org, even corporate. Abstractions for abstraction sake are frowned upon for good reason.