Sorry if that offended you, it wasn't my intention; I tried to keep my comment fair to both sides. Let me however just say that what you're doing in your reply

Sorry if that offended you, it wasn't my intention; I tried to keep my comment fair to both sides. Let me however just say that what you're doing in your reply is attacking the straw man. You're setting up a version of my argument and then attacking that, instead of responding to my argument directly. I'll respond to your comment anyways. Code is art, just as you alluded to in your response. And from a solely artistic point of view, there's a certain glee and wonder at seeing short and smart code. When I browse codegolf on SE, I never fail to be amazed at the frankly fucking brilliant solutions some people come up with. Having said that, my main point was that code like that, in my opinion, does not belong in a proper project. I get the point of it being practical for a single person, but that codebase is above and beyond what is reasonable. It's simply not nice code. You're saying that I should not think that the code is not nice because I don't understand it, but you seem to be missing the main point in your flowery metaphors and analogies of art: art is subjective. You might find that code to be beautiful in its own way, and I'm sure that's justified to you, but I do not.