> a well written program has the qualities of a good poem: You want to read it and it you can follow it easily. Have you ever read a poem by T.S. Eliot? A bri

> a well written program has the qualities of a good poem: You want to read it and it you can follow it easily. Have you ever read a poem by T.S. Eliot? A brilliant poet with an incredible gift for language, but I've been reading his "The Four Quartets" repeatedly for over a year and still don't understand much of it... Good poetry is not necessarily readily understandable (and coming to think of it, neither is a good program). But once you have understood it you see that yes, "every word is exactly where it belongs".