Shakespeare snobbery (Score 1)

I was tempted to let all this go -with no strong opinion on compilers and all that- until I read that "But they forgot that you have to be more sophisticated and have more perspective to understand Shakespeare." This set me off. Wrong! The best thing about Shakespeare is not that you have to be sophisticated to understand it, but that every time you read Shakespeare (with more perspective, but not necessarily sophistication), you understand MORE. If it's done well, you always understand Shakespeare. You can just understand more or less of it. Sometimes sophistication helps, sometimes it gets in the way. Shakespeare was frequently bawdy, filthy, down-to-earth, and a number of other things, but often FUNNY. And often not in any particularly sophisticated way. It just gets better when you read more of it, with new perspectives. This kind of snobbery is what gives Shakespeare a bad name. And the parallels to computer languages seem, at least to me, to be obvious. Theatre and computers should also be accessible. A rich experience can include a "non-elegant" experience.