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Unreadable to you could mean readable to others.

Sometimes you have to learn different paradigms and ways to express computer program.




Also, there's an unstated reality here that the person who sets the standards is a senior person (in the company, in his career, in the industry) and may just be letting personal judgment and past success - good in its time, but not necessarily timeless - override his judgment about a legitimately new and better way of doing something. This is tech after all: progress is valuable, and objectivity is hard.




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