Paul said:

> While you're right, some languages tend to encourage clean code more
> than others. C and Perl can both be incredibly terse, for example, and
> there's a tendency for advanced users to write code which can't be
> understood by anybody - including themselves six months later.

That's true. The language design is the main reason that there's an
obfuscated C contest but not an obfuscated COBOL contest.

Rich, who is always amused to read that simplicity was the overwhelming
design criterion for C++.

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