>In order to do some necessary things, some smart programmers wrote some 
>hard-to-maintain code using tricks.

Would a weak programmer even know how to do it?

>Once they got a CoBOL compiler, that wasn't needed anymore.

>With that exception, I strongly agree with you that the best programmers 
>created the easiest to maintain code.

Easy is a relative term.
If there is no other way to do it, it is the easiest to maintain.

A weak programmer cannot overcome limitations of languages.

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