>Finally I'd like to add that the author didn't say this was a "maintenance nightmare", he did however say the solution was elegant, scalable and totally unmain

>Finally I'd like to add that the author didn't say this was a "maintenance nightmare", he did however say the solution was elegant, scalable and totally unmaintainable. Which is impossible, right? If it's elegant, it's maintainable. That's part of the definition of elegant software. A on liner that does amazing things, that very few people understand is not elegant. The same thought scales up to a whole solution IMO.