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by maltalex 2800 days ago
> everyday you read code that other folks - many with brains much much bigger than mine - have written, and its great.

I don't think that it's a language thing. It's probably popularity thing most of all.

In popular languages the quality of the average line of code is pretty low. Plus, you know, real-world constraints of real developers working under real-world constraints....