Another similar anti-pattern is acting in a way that implies the computer itself cares about such things. Other than efficiency concerns, the audience for code

Another similar anti-pattern is acting in a way that implies the computer itself cares about such things. Other than efficiency concerns, the audience for code is other programmers, and those programmers over time. The computer doesn't care about your variable names, how DRY your code is, or even the elegance of your data structures except if the ones you have chosen cause it to run more or less slowly. Another way to put it: if data is passed from one function to another in a way that would make any programmer wince, but the odds of it ever being re-visited by another programmer are near zero, and it affects nothing else, does it matter? No, unless you think the computer itself winces as well.