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Jaaki

Beginner programmers write simple code.

Mid Level programmers write complicated code, abstracting an abstraction of an abstraction, mostly trying to be clever.

Senior programmers write simple code.
Having seen the light, senior programmers know that humans are flawed, keeping things as simple as possible is more valuable than bragging about your latest "hello world" that took only 173 lines of code.

BTW. Googling simple function names etc. only means that you don't waste memory capacity, rather saving it for higher level thoughts. Especially these days when most of us have to learn so many different languages and tools inside each project.

Nice Post!