All this talk of beauty and elegance is missing one key point: it's not just an aesthetic matter. Beautiful code is beautiful because it implements some theoret

All this talk of beauty and elegance is missing one key point: it's not just an aesthetic matter. Beautiful code is beautiful because it implements some theoretical design concept that makes it easier to maintain and more performant. The fact that it happens to look nice when you do that is down to the design of the language itself.