[hnlmorg]

Devils advocate:

GP might work for a company working on a niche application (be it software or hardware) that requires code to be written like the aforementioned and anyone who specialises in that field is already adept in reading and writing code like that.

I'm not going to defend that choice of programming style for everywhere but software development is a broad industry where you do get pockets of people working on code that looks totally alien to others who are used to see C or ALGOL derived languages. Take LISP for example, there is LISP code in half of all European TVs shipped in the 90s. Forth is used in loads of places, even FreeBSD's bootloader is written in Forth. Machine code is almost completely unreadable for humans yet a massive chunk of software in the 80s was written using it.

My point is the industry might have standardised on a subset of syntax styles that seem readable to the lowest common denominator of developers but it's a massive industry with developers using all sorts of exotic languages effectively. Let's not go down the rabbit hole of saying they're doing it wrong because their code looks alien to you before you've understood the field in which that code is running in.

[laumars]

You’re losing karma for this but you’re right. It’s a massive industry and there are specialties out there writing code in languages that would look unreadable to your average web developer yet the code is well written and perfectly readable to those in the same specialty.

Sometimes I wonder if the only people who browse this site are JavaScript monkeys and Rust fanboys. There’s a whole spectrum of languages out there that looks nothing like C.