Code I like (II): Fractal journeys

Fractal is about similar patterns recurring at progressively smaller scales. To me, good code is a fractal: you observe the same qualities repeated at different levels of abstraction.This is not surprising. Good code is the one that is easy to understand, and the best mechanism we have to deal with complexity is building abstractions. These interchange complexity for an intelligible interface to us humans. But we still need to deal with that complexity they push down.