[Sunlis]

In my experience, "good" code and "pretty" code are the same thing - and similarly for "bad" and "ugly". Of course, when I say "pretty", I mean well laid-out, properly documented, non-spaghetti code. I've spent far too much of my time tearing out thousands of lines of "bad" code that wasn't written in a way to allow for easy changes.

[jasonlotito]

My issue is the phrase "sake of beauty." This ignores why this code was written. I'm fine with beautiful code. My issue is the use of the word beautiful in such a way as to imply that beauty was the intent. People don't try to write beautiful code, people try to write good code. That it happens to be "beautiful" is a bonus.

Hopefully my point is clear. I guess it's subtle, but I think a crucial difference.

[pieterp]

I actually thought the article would be about indention, style, etc.

[jasonlotito]

Considering his examples, it's not. It's about architectural quality.

Indentation style is meaningless in this context.