> truly incredible code is nominally quite brie That's probably true. But that makes me wonder... People have a hard time appreciating poetry in their second

> truly incredible code is nominally quite brie That's probably true. But that makes me wonder... People have a hard time appreciating poetry in their second or third language, because you need to have such vast knowledge to get the subtleties of the poet's intentions. I suspect the same holds for code. The more skilled and more experienced the programmer, the more complexity he can handle. And he'll find beauty where mortals like us are simply confused. I can't appreciate Shakespeare, but I suspect it is as great as many claim it is. I would probably dismiss Shakespeare as unnecessarily complex and verbose if I didn't know better. Worth thinking about the next time you're annoyed at a piece of complex code, and really want to refactor it so everybody can read it. You may be destroying something beautiful.