[marcosdumay]

> to me, these reactions would reduce the success for the understandability (and learnability?) criterion

You say that of the submission that was sent back to the authors to complete the actual code instead of just sending pseudocode...

[keyserj]

Does it say that the submission was sent back?

For the "suspicious" people, this seems to imply the code was final:

> It is significant that [people] were all surprised and suspicious when we told them that Haskell prototype P1 (see appendix B) is a complete tested executable program.

For the people critiquing "cleverness", that seems completely valid whether or not it's actual code or pseudocode.

[marcosdumay]

You can complain about at most 1 of "it's hard to read" and "it's too simple, it doesn't look like you wrote the entire code".