It goes too far though. The virtue of simplicity needs to be balanced against the virtue of making proper use of advanced language features.
A first-year student is unlikely to understand C++ template metaprogramming, or just about any Haskell code, but that's not to say they should always be avoided in production code.
> The best code is no code at all
This can be interpreted as advice to avoid the 'inner-platform effect' anti-pattern. Good advice, but personally I'd rather express it in terms of the inner-platform effect.
A first-year student is unlikely to understand C++ template metaprogramming, or just about any Haskell code, but that's not to say they should always be avoided in production code.
> The best code is no code at all
This can be interpreted as advice to avoid the 'inner-platform effect' anti-pattern. Good advice, but personally I'd rather express it in terms of the inner-platform effect.