> "do it as simply as possible, don't break certain rules, don't try to be too clever,"

This has to be a universal rule of programming. It's equally true for Ruby and Perl, which are extremely effective languages, but devolve quickly because of their uncanny ability to power cleverness. It's the whole premise of Go, by being boring by design.

Complex is easy, simple is hard, but it seems mostly because we fail to be able to resist the allure of cleverness.