I think the author is responding to the self-indulgent "Reddit clone in three lines of lisp!" variety of stunt-programming, where best practices, standards, and

I think the author is responding to the self-indulgent "Reddit clone in three lines of lisp!" variety of stunt-programming, where best practices, standards, and readability take a backseat to showing off how much hard-to-read compound logic you can cram into a single line of code. Honestly, I don't have a problem with those, as long as the practices involved in them don't seep into everyday programming.