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While I appreciate clean code when I have to work on it, it's somewhat orthogonal to my requirements when we're talking about running systems rather than building them.

I guess it could be preferred as a second-order factor.

In some ways yes, in other ways no. I've looked at both, and there is always a certain amount of "ugliness" that comes with writing low level C software for Unix.

I would rather have complexity in the engine code than in the unit files. A clean implementation is less important than a clean interface.