Re:brilliant or dangerous? (Score 1)

But is much code really "brilliant"? I accept that certain algorithms and ideas in computer science are brilliant (Djikstra's algorithm, quicksort, realtime collision detection), possibly also some ideas in software engineering and design, but code is usually just a set of logical steps in some programming language. It's easy for it to get complicated, but I think it's rarely brilliant, especially if the domain of the code is something prosaic like a desktop application or a database or networking. As many people here are saying, when it comes to code what *is* brilliant is figuring out how to avoid complexity in the first place.