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> If we're just talking about non-understandable code, I suggest that
> the "terse" syntax of the C/C++ language family is only a part of the
> problem. Choosing wrong or indecriptive identifiers ...
  As I recall, the obfuscated C examples weren't generally about
stupidly chosen identifiers, but more often C code which appeared at
first glance to do one thing, but on *close* parsing of the syntax,
actually did something else.