[astrobe_]

> simple is only one proxy for readable code

No, simple isn't a proxy for readable code. One can write in a readable manner a complex solution to a problem, but it isn't always right (using other "proxies" isn't, either).

It isn't always right because it's "a complex solution to a problem", not "a complex solution to a complex problem". What you made readable might even be "an overly complex solution to an actually simple problem"; meaning - to put it bluntly - that you have inadvertently spent your precious time on putting lipstick on a pig.

[autokad]

I didnt say simple was the only proxy, just that it is one. if you are at odds with that, then take it up with pretty much all the greatest minds in computer science.