Because code should be beautiful.
It's strange... perplexing...
A little flummoxed indeed...
Do you, perhaps, perchance–just a moment, if it's certainly not a bother–yes, would you mind sharing with us all this "Beautiful Code" that is still around, gazed upon and admired for years to come, of the same as those Renaissance masters you so admire?
It's almost–no, and yet it can't be anyway else–it's almost as if _all code washes away in less than a year._
Oh, how all programmers bother to idolize text strings do believe–with a suspended reason–that they're laying bricks for cathedrals!
It was never the case!
Are they swindled??
Alas, no cathedrals in view.
Deprecated.
Perhaps ruins instead most apt.
Let us both browse the RUINS of programming through the ages–almost 80 years or more to explore!
Such longevity!
Such beauty!
Even operating systems will be replace in time, and they certainly don't evoke a feeling of 'beauty' unless you've quite fondness for kernel code.
Amusing, laughable!!
A pity almost!
That almost all code lain will never–NEVER–last.
It will be replaced.
It is the spaghetti you consume, not lock up and reason about its texture and forbearance–it'll rot either way.
What's the use in such "beauty" when it cannot even stand upon itself in five years hence?
And before one spindles off about how beauty can be fragile, I would like to remind anyone who would ever bother to read tgat beauty and strength is congruent, not at ends.