> simple is only one proxy for readable code No, simple isn't a proxy for readable code. One can write in a readable manner a complex solution to a problem, bu

> simple is only one proxy for readable code No, simple isn't a proxy for readable code. One can write in a readable manner a complex solution to a problem, but it isn't always right (using other "proxies" isn't, either). It isn't always right because it's "a complex solution to a problem", not "a complex solution to a complex problem". What you made readable might even be "an overly complex solution to an actually simple problem"; meaning - to put it bluntly - that you have inadvertently spent your precious time on putting lipstick on a pig.