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It doesn't help that we don't have a good definition for what 'clever' means when referring to code.

This article talks about a time someone made an abstract class and then took DRY a little too far. If this is an example of 'being clever' then anyone using map instead of writing a for-loop would have to be at gaussian levels of cleverness.

[Also a class generator is implied to be less clever than an abstract class ... I'm not sure I can accept the usage of 'clever' in the article as meaningful.]