There is a certain universality in the "Forth philosophy" across many developer communities. (one could stretch it to include life too, but it gets a bit tired

There is a certain universality in the "Forth philosophy" across many developer communities. (one could stretch it to include life too, but it gets a bit tired at that point) Unix wizards believe in "Worse is Better." Lisp and Smalltalk hackers like to have a system that is "elephants all the way down." The Zen of Python says "There should be one-- and preferably only one --obvious way to do it." Rails popularized "Convention over configuration." The specific interpretations vary, but implicitly, they all deride the obvious alternative: piling on layers of heavyweight complexity to gain some perceived flexibility and modularity.