Nice article I couldn't agree more with what you're saying. I also strive for simple easy to understand code, mainly due to the exact same reasons as yourself. A word of warning though, when you refactor your existing code, do it in very small stages, refactor a function here, test, a function there, test, etc. I didn't follow that once (about 6 months ago) and I'm still piecing the project back together now :(

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