Novice programmer: Uses simple if/else. Adept programmer: Discovers polymorphism. It's great, uses it for everything. Master programmer: Realizes that in many

Novice programmer: Uses simple if/else. Adept programmer: Discovers polymorphism. It's great, uses it for everything. Master programmer: Realizes that in many cases, it makes the code less clear and more verbose, reverts back to if/else until the flexibility is actually needed. Same story repeats itself many times on different fronts: metaprogramming, recursion, exceptions, macros, etc.