Comment by flylikeabanana

I'm in the "code should read like poetry" camp. Poetry is the act of conveying meaning that isn't completely semantic - meter and rhyme being the primary examples. In code, that can mean maintaining a cadence of variable names, use of whitespace that helps illuminate structure, or writing blocks or classes where the appearance of the code itself has some mapping to what it does. You can kludge a solution together, or craft a context in which the suchness of what you are trying to convey becomes clear in a narrative climax.