> Code is meant to be executed first, read second. Knuth would disagree, as would anyone who had to maintain code...ever. Nowhere in the convoluted answer, did

> Code is meant to be executed first, read second. Knuth would disagree, as would anyone who had to maintain code...ever. Nowhere in the convoluted answer, did the carpenter explain the conceptual strategy of the solution. At least, that would have gotten a discussion going by replacing ??? with a comment. Instead they just chose to pontificate random aspects they considered important on a path that only they knew, assuming their approach was optimal (which it is not). That's pretty useless at any company.