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Strong disagree. It's defined meaning in the context of code is a subjective experience of the coder of "clean", which carries elements of "satisfying", among other things.

Maybe: It has no intrinsic, defined meaning in the context of the computing machine.




> is a subjective experience of the coder of "clean"

My subjective experience of grapefruits is that they are yucky. That tells others that I don't like grapefruits, but it tells them nothing about the grapefruit.

It tells them nothing about, what exactly in the interplay between the chemical composition of grapefruit juice, the genetic programming behind my tastebuds, and the personal experiences which shaped my individual perception of "tastyness vs. yuckyness", makes them "yucky" for me.




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