>but truly beautiful code/language is as simple as possible code and literary prose aren't interchangeable, not everything in the world ought to be approached

>but truly beautiful code/language is as simple as possible code and literary prose aren't interchangeable, not everything in the world ought to be approached through the lens of programming. Code is, unless someone decides to make a language purely for aesthetic purposes, designed to solve technical problems, prose is not. Maximalist art has a long history. It engulfs the reader, it's deliberately not utilitarian. It's often also a reaction to the sort of plain, monks cave style writing of a lot of American authors. Faulkner certainly falls into that category, but also Pynchon, Wallace, and so on.