Um, dude, you do realize that in the real world this is the situation 90% of the time? Code is generally used for a practical purpose, as far as I know.
It helps so much to actually read what one is replying to. To wit:
a) reading code that wasn't meant to be cute, but was meant to work where nothing else was as practical
There are plenty of situations where practical code is ugly purely because of either the ignorance (if sloppy) or genuis (if inspired) of the programmer. The situations which mandate ugly code are not all too common.
Hands? Them're luxury! When I were a lad, hands were summat only posh people had. The rest of us had to make do with paws which hadn't evolved fully yet, and we had to filter all of our spam from each mailbox manually, but we had to go to the mailbox - across a river of lava, mind - to collect each message but couldn't filter it until we got back. We'd sort spam twenty six hours a day, getting up two hours before going to bed, and had to eat cold poison while we were doing it. And we had to pay for the priviledge of being allowed to filter our own!
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I wish I had mod points for you.
Hands? Them're luxury! When I were a lad, hands were summat only posh people had. The rest of us had to make do with paws which hadn't evolved fully yet, and we had to filter all of our spam from each mailbox manually, but we had to go to the mailbox - across a river of lava, mind - to collect each message but couldn't filter it until we got back. We'd sort spam twenty six hours a day, getting up two hours before going to bed, and had to eat cold poison while we were doing it. And we had to pay for the priviledge of being allowed to filter our own!