Full title: Good code is cheap code, provided you substitute the following non-standard definitions for "cheap" and "good". How about instead, you simply say

Full title: Good code is cheap code, provided you substitute the following non-standard definitions for "cheap" and "good". How about instead, you simply say what you're saying, without forcing the rest of us to do algebra on the language: "Maintainable code is brief" pretty much summarizes that entire article. Note, however, that if you'd used that as the title we wouldn't have needed all those paragraphs of definitions.