Certainly the best code is simple and easy to read, and yet still concise. But even "clever" code can be better than truly bad code. I'd wager that those of us

Certainly the best code is simple and easy to read, and yet still concise. But even "clever" code can be better than truly bad code. I'd wager that those of us that frequent HN probably see less of the sort of truly bad code though since it is usually the code written at lower paying jobs and fields, but which possibly makes up more LOC than all the "ok" code.