One can write totally incomprehensible code in any language if clean, readable code is not a priority. And the opposite is true, too, of course. I have seen so

One can write totally incomprehensible code in any language if clean, readable code is not a priority. And the opposite is true, too, of course. I have seen some fairly messy Python code and some marvelously clean Perl code. And I am fairly certain that over time, some people have written beautiful PHP code and ugly Lisp code. In my humble experience, it is not so much a property of the programming language as it is of the programmer(s).