My two takeaways from this article are that beauty is in the eye of the beholder, and that C++ is a horrible mess. Many of these examples I found less than beautiful, but hey, to each his own. And I feel bad for the author and anyone else who has to work in C++, since it forces you to choose between genericity and readibility. Either your code is rigid, or it&#x27;s a bloated, unreadable mess.<p>Here&#x27;s some &quot;eyebleach&quot; for anyone else who might be a little sad after reading this; I&#x27;ve been learning Haskell and recently came across a definition of a Fibonacci function that I found eminently beautiful.<p><pre><code>    fibs = 0 : 1 : zipWith (+) fibs (tail fibs)</code></pre>