> blanket justification for writing unreadable code
Well, ironically, the site itself is down (so the code must be beautiful?) but assuming I understand the content from the title, another thing that most of these "code quality doesn't matter" types overlook is that software changes over time, quite a bit. That's why it's called "soft"ware, it's supposed to be soft. Readable is changeable. If all the mattered were performance, we'd engrave the code path onto a circuit board.
Well, ironically, the site itself is down (so the code must be beautiful?) but assuming I understand the content from the title, another thing that most of these "code quality doesn't matter" types overlook is that software changes over time, quite a bit. That's why it's called "soft"ware, it's supposed to be soft. Readable is changeable. If all the mattered were performance, we'd engrave the code path onto a circuit board.