perspicuous

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So is HN a good place to ask, and if so, are you able to find a perspicuous example highlighting the superior code quality?

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(of language) transparently clear; easily understandable; "writes in a limpid style"; "lucid directions"; "a luculent oration"- Robert Burton; "pellucid prose"; "a crystal clear explanation"; "a perspicuous argument"

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adjective

See also: limpid, lucid, luculent, pellucid

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So is HN a good place to ask, and if so, are you able to find a perspicuous example highlighting the superior code quality?

I think perhaps I could have been more perspicuous in my post, as both replies to my original post seem to focus on specifics when I'm talking about the more general case.

But that issue, of an initially straightforward and perspicuous intent generating works of great meaning which are in time stripped of their most attractive aesthetic attributes in culture's great scrapyard, is endogenous to this society of ours.