Programmers, at least the mass market programmers, have optimized for ease of writing code for many decades. It's a natural urge, but in the long run for succes

Programmers, at least the mass market programmers, have optimized for ease of writing code for many decades. It's a natural urge, but in the long run for successful applications, it's more important that code is readable and maintainable. As the years go by the initial cost of tapping out the code becomes more and more negligible.