[peteyPete]

I'm all for clever code when playing around but there are limits to its usefulness. When its over the top, you're not doing yourself or anyone any favors. If something took you a while to come up with, and on top of that its not commented out, its going to annoy the next person, and maybe even yourself when you get back to it 6 months down the road. Well, either annoy or stroke your ego.. Neither contribute much to the quality of the end product.

Here's a quote from Brian Kernighan: "Everyone knows that debugging is twice as hard as writing a program in the first place. So if you're as clever as you can be when you write it, how will you ever debug it?"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brian_Kernighan

I've come to appreciate simplicity especially when spending a lot of time dealing with other people's code. If you spend most of your time in other peoples code, simplicity will save you endless amounts of time.