Boring code is better than interesting code!
Readers familiar with Terry Pratchett would have probably heard of Interesting Times, which opens with something that has been misattributed to China in an urban legend: There is a curse. They Say: May You Live in Interesting Times! One of the characters, Rincewind (this is not a kind of cheese), is on a perennial quest for things that are boring, and boring is precisely what he never gets. Part of the book's plot has Rincewind tricked from living on a remote, boring tropical island to a teeming empire where all sorts of interesting things involving him keep on happening. For Rincewind, boring is a kind of Holy Grail that keeps on slipping through his fingers.
This code is meant to be boring, Rincewind-style. ...
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