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High quality ("beautiful") code is as simple AND legible as possible, while remaining logically correct. All must be present.

It is a balance. And legibility is a fuzzy attribute that depends on the intellectual capacity of the collective observer.

But, beauty is subjective.. some people think maximally terse code is beautiful so... shrug





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