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There are non-subjective arguments. See EWD831: https://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/EWD/transcriptions/EWD08xx/EWD831.html https://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/EWD/trans

• ModernMech 4y ago
  I referenced that one in my post. It hinges on a concept of “ugliness” which as I said can mean anything to anyone. It also presumes that this argument based on ugliness is the only one; even if we take his entire argument at face value, that the method he proposes is more “beautiful” than the rest and we agree on what that means, we still can’t say it’s the preferred methods in situations where beauty or ugliness of code doesn’t matter, because Dijkstra doesn’t even acknowledge they exist.