[heretoo]

The same can be said for function calls, with the indirection they create hiding details of broken and side-effecting implementations.

None the less, the opposite is also true. Languages that have macro facilities can aid in writing more legible code. (See `threading` in clojure), or the `loop` macro and regular expression macros in common lisp.

[Roboprog]

Well said. Rambling Java code with little to no abstraction is its own kind of nightmare.

Some people are just terrified of any new abstractions, I guess, preferring to work with an endless series of tally marks, rather than these obfuscating “multiplication” and “exponent” complications (exaggerating to make a point - abstract != unintelligible).

[emodendroket]

I think there is probably some middle ground between "no abstraction at all" and "literally anything goes."

[Roboprog]

LCD?

Alas, that tends to be the steady state for Enterprise development :-(

(I know that’s not literally what you said, but that’s where that “middle ground” attitude leads to: the bottom)