Inexperienced programmers sometimes can have a dysfunctional, almost worshipful, relationship with complexity. They're entering an industry riddled with complex

Inexperienced programmers sometimes can have a dysfunctional, almost worshipful, relationship with complexity. They're entering an industry riddled with complexity, most of it way over their heads, and they're in awe. So when they write complicated code themselves, they almost take it as a point of pride. I wrote this massive, tangled 300-line function that actually works, by god.