This linguistic feat also applies to code. For my 2012 IOCCC entry [1], I spent many many hours tweaking the syntax and ordering of code to get the uniform loo

This linguistic feat also applies to code. For my 2012 IOCCC entry [1], I spent many many hours tweaking the syntax and ordering of code to get the uniform looking layout. Which I ended up doing many times over every time I found a way to shorten the code. One can play with the total height, width of the arms, and height of the arms, to try to get back to uniformity. I expect many other IOCCC authors have had similar experiences. [1] https://www.ioccc.org/2012/tromp/tromp.c https://www.ioccc.org/2012/tromp/tromp.c