If something is functional and you don’t think it’s beautiful, you should rethink your definition of beauty.
— Some moron, 2017

They definitely weren't functional.

Ah yes, the "it's impossible for ugly functional code to exist" crowd. They're surprisingly stubborn too. If you show them functional code that's clearly ugly, they usually just claim it must be OO code instead.

This is what ugly people say to make themselves feel better.

i understand that as elegance in simplicity.
im writing mostly in C tho, so everything i make looks like a jungle at first look. especially i use jump tables and i use those to make my code branchless. where beauty comes in is in the relations between my objects, the elegance of the solutions, and the speed.
you could say my code is hippie skank inner beauty crazy sex kind of deal.

@AlmondSauce

And this isn't even the worst I've seen, this is just the one I can find the easiest

Just because it works doesn’t mean it can’t work better.

@AlmondSauce it wasn’t even about code gosh

@kiki I mean, you did post it on devrant, so it's not a completely unreasonable conclusion...

If something isn’t beautiful and you think it’s functional, you should rethink your definition of functional.

@AlmondSauce see that “dev” tag under this very post?

@kiki That's very true. It can't be dev related if it doesn't have a dev tag.