So, great, this is the mainstream view. It won. We got Pascal, that philosophy mutated into Java and here we are. It takes lots of code to do stuff, and that&#x27;s universally scored  as a maintainability win. All right. Who disagrees? Little pockets of Lisp hackers up in the hills?<p>Unless the argument is that we need another big wave of even weaker tools, it feels unnecessary to give this sermon in 2015.<p>(I invite people who disagree to express something concrete in reply.)