>Your comment boils down to "I'm smart", which in the end, isn't terribly smart. They are saying that a programmer should be able to cope with the cognitive di

>Your comment boils down to "I'm smart", which in the end, isn't terribly smart. They are saying that a programmer should be able to cope with the cognitive dissonance of not immediately understanding something. >Celebrate laziness and a want for simplicity. Concepts like generics might be intellectually more challenging, but they are clearly the “lazy” approach for actually writing code. Writing and maintaining multiple versions of the same function, or using code generation, is intellectual lazy but manually intensive.