"Code is meant to be functional and readable, not artistic." I take offence to that!
I'm offended by that, that's what I wanted to say. Code could definitely be an artistic expression. It has aesthetics.
I tried to get it to come up with a solution that I had already posted some years ago, deleting empty lines at the end of a text document using ed
, to see whether it could do it. Let's just say that it's really proficient in generating regular expression nonsense.