[papaver]

wow thats the biggest cop out i've ever heard. quality 100% matters, if not even more. shipping crap code still makes it crap and it will come to bite you in the end.

libfreetype is an example of a great library, clean and well documented...

beautiful coding isn't a myth, it actually works... write code like poetry and it pays off 10 fold... less errors, easier to reason about, malleable... the benefits are extreme... try to actually experience something before making unfounded claims... i've been writing beautiful for over a decade now... once you realize code is written once and read 100 times, you'll come to the realization of doing it clean and right the first time pays of in the future, which means less work and bullshit...

[ashwinaj]

Just because I say beautiful code is a myth, doesn't mean I and other people write crap code. If you have to make an argument, don't start off with extremes. I'm sure you've heard much worse things than some random stranger saying beautiful code is a myth. Dial down the hyperbole...

> write code like poetry

When a code base reaches a certain size it's hard to write "beautiful code". Please don't pretend that it is just as easy when you have multiple complexities/priorities. If you write so called beautiful code in complex projects, good for you.